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5th December 2022

This week: beautiful winter vegetables, with photographs by gardener-turned-photographer Charles Jones (1866-1959), about whom little is known, except that he created a huge body of work which included 'vegetable portraiture', as the Royal Academy terms it. These 'Onions' (c1900) would be perfect roasted in a 'fierce wood fire' or oven and served with butter, as the Vicomte de Mauduit suggests in They Can't Ration These.

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