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A sweet history of cake and Christmas

Join us for a festive tradition, Annie Gray’s Christmas lecture. The topic? That most iconic (and delicious) of puddings, the Christmas cake!

Food and drink play a huge part in defining who we are and how we are perceived by others. True on an individual basis, it’s even more true when we consider national identity. One of the defining dishes of Englishness is cake: we make it, eat it, and have exported its delights wherever we’ve spread our particular brand of culture.

Discover the history of cake through the story of one of the most iconic English cakes: the rich, fruited spectacular that is a really good Christmas cake.

Annie Gray takes us on a tour of cake and where it came from and explains why Christmas cake is now imperilled. (Spoiler alert: she has solutions). It's not too late to make your own, so let this talk help get you in the mood.