Liveryman Graham Craddock almost personifies Coronavirus. He left for a trip to Vietnam in early March with his wife, Mary, when the infection appeared to belong to a distant country. Put into isolation shortly after arrival he sent jokey messages that reflected the mood in the government. Not long afterwards he was fighting for his …
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The Cooks’ Pembroke lecture is one more casualty of the virus. Professor Sarah Bridle was to give the lecture in October but social distancing advice means that it has had to be postponed. Professor Bridle studied at Pembroke, the University of Cambridge college, before becoming professor of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. She has …
So COVID19 over a hundred years on from the last major pandemic the Spanish Flu following the WWI has rocked our modern society to the core. No more is it more evident than here in the City.
A quarter of a century ago Freeman Cyrus Todiwala opened one of the country’s first fine-dining curry houses in a deprived, almost derelict, area of east London next to the Square Mile. He describes his battle to survive at a time when he should have been sitting back and reaping the rewards.
Liveryman and Past Master Graham Craddock was an early victim of Coronavirus, contracting the virus on a trip to Vietnam. In the previous indium of Whats Cooking he described his battle to survive. Now up and running he is battling for the survival of the industry in which he spent his working life.
Two members of the Company, Morwena Carrington and Wendy Hardiman-Evans, relate their experiences of life during the pandemic.
One fact widely known about salmon is that they swim against the stream. Forman & Field, a century old salmon smoker in the east end of London, claims to have done the same over the past year.
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