Please, Sir, I’m Stuffed - Did Oliver Really Need More?
Thursday, January 1st, 2009Doctors writing in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com, believe that while the 1830s workhouse diet may have been dull it was nutritionally sufficient and question whether Oliver really needed more. Sue Thornton and colleagues compared menus and other historical material on workhouse diets with Dickens’ fictional description of what Oliver […]