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Whether you search on websites, flick through an app or sit down with a cookbook or magazine depends partly on your age, but new research shows most of us still value all those things…
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Storecupboards would be considered empty without a jar of basil pesto these days. In 1971, the then mysterious green paste made its way from Liguria to Britain's Italian delis, but it wasn't until September 1991 that pesto hit the big time when Sacla' Basil Pesto went on sale in Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Safeway. Suddenly a generation of cooks were introduced to the pleasures of the Italian table. It changed the way we eat.
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1666 On 2 September, a fire at Tom Farynor’s bakery on Pudding Lane triggered The Great Fire of London. It burned for four days and destroyed more than 13,000 homes.