An essential part of her job was mapping such dishes’ contribution to social history. To facilitate this, she had set up an online forum inviting people to submit their recipes and their memories of the said foods.
Rarely had such a subject invited such lively debate. Read – lively/stroke outright hostility. The Texans tussled with the Missourians, the Australians argued with the South Africans and the Scots shrieked at the Canadians.
Boy, did she regret that move.