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Featured in Vice magazine

Mar 12, 2020 | News, Potatoes

I shared my deep knowledge of the chip butty with Sam Hancock for Vice magazine. You can read the article, A Brief History of the Humble Chip Butty, online at:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5xma4/a-brief-history-of-the-humble-chip-butty

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During the First World War ‘Canada created an Imperial Munitions Board; Austria-Hungary, a Joint Food Committee; the United States, a War Industries Board and a Fuel and Food Administration; Imperial Germany’s new agencies included the War Wheat Corporation, the War Food Office and the splendidly named Imperial Potato Office.

— I. Beckett, ‘Total War’, War, Peace and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europe, ed. in C. Emsley (1989).
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