"The Celebrity Chef of Victorian England" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Sep 2020 10:00 p.m. PST |
"When the potato blight arrived in Ireland in September 1845, many of those in power downplayed the threat it posed. The disease had already blackened potato crops across the Americas and Western Europe, but dire predictions about the damage it could wreak on Ireland's staple food were dismissed as irresponsible scaremongering, "deluding the public with a false alarm," in the words of the mayor of Liverpool. That line didn't last long. By October it was obvious that the lives of millions were at risk. In response, the British government offered half measures, unwavering in its determination that the solution should not be worse than the problem. To break economic orthodoxy by providing direct aid to those in need would be tyrannical, it was argued, and create a culture of dependency and deception. Charles Trevelyan, the government official leading the relief effort, put it bluntly: "The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated … The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
bsrlee | 29 Sep 2020 4:51 a.m. PST |
Sadly, this seems awfully familiar today. |
Tango01 | 29 Sep 2020 12:27 p.m. PST |
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AICUSV | 29 Sep 2020 7:10 p.m. PST |
Would make a great TV mini-series. |
Tango01 | 30 Sep 2020 12:49 p.m. PST |
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