Archive: December 18th, 2010

“Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat”, goes the old seasonal children’s rhyme. Well, Christmas is definitely coming … and Goose was the traditional fayre for Christmas dinner in Victorian England – whilst, at the same time, it was a rare treat. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that in the poor [...]

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