Olivia Potts Olivia Potts

You are what you don’t eat

In the past, the ability to preserve food depended largely on people’s means, making Eleanor Barnett’s history of food waste also a history of changing attitudes to poverty

Curing herring by salting and packing in barrels. From ‘Graphic Illustrations of Animals and their Utility to Man’, c.1850. [Getty Images]

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