Eccles cake Eccles cake An Eccles cake is a small, round cake filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. Eccles cakes are named after the English town of Eccles, historically part of Lancashire, but now classified as a town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester. It is not known who invented the recipe, but James Birch is credited with being the first person to sell Eccles cakes commercially, which he sold from his shop at the corner of Vicarage Road and St Mary's Road, now Church Street, in the town centre in 1793.
In Defense of Food In Defense of Food In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (released internationally as In Defence of Food) is a 2008 book by journalist and activist Michael Pollan. It was number one on the "New York Times" Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 essay "Unhappy Meals" published in the "New York Times Magazine". Pollan has also said that he wrote "In Defense of Food" as a response to people asking him what they should eat after having read his previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma". In the book, Pollan explores the relationship between