Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North

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a b Maconie, Stuart (2007). Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-191022-8. I have every sympathy with someone who feels they have suffered unfairly for being overweight. But I am not yet convinced that they need special protection under the law. If I am honest, I am far more concerned that girls as young as five worry about their size and appearance and what that means for their future mental health and relationship with food. Sam was sitting close to Sarah Blake, very close. Their heads dipped towards each other, bodies leaning, curving in and mirroring one another. Shy smiles decorated their faces, and he could hear gentle laugher, if not the words that caused it. Dean watched, just for a moment, and even from a distance he could see there were stars in Sam’s eyes. There was an exasperated sigh. “There’s nothing you can do about it tonight is there,” he said. His voice getting harder, louder, the more Sarah pressed the point. “Your sisters have left, I’m tired, and you know it would have been a punishment for me to talk to any other person in that room.” She doesn’t notice the way Dean’s smile drops off his face the moment she turns away. Something-beginning-with-E thinks she’s helped Dean out of a tough spot, but his spirits sink down into the soles of his boots, and then leak out through the holes in them to spill across the floor.

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Have we been introduced?” Novak asked, giving Dean his full attention in the form of a deep-blue glare. “I don’t recall. My name is Castiel Novak, and you are?" Andy came up with the slightly-too-personal-but-very-Andy-like, “I’m surprised you’re not too busy for something like this, big businessman like you.” Oh, Castiel,” she sounded frustrated, like this was an old conversation, the same old ground being trodden yet again. “Can’t you ever relax? Even just a tiny little bit? This was supposed to be fun wasn’t it? I don’t understand why you can’t give people a chance; you might be pleasantly surprised if you do.” Maconie joined BBC Radio 2 in 1998, with shows such as All Singing, All Dancing, All Night, a northern soul music show, and, for several years, Stuart Maconie's Critical List on Saturday evenings. He also presents documentaries and deputised for Johnnie Walker on Radio 2's Drivetime programme.

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Maconie has also presented musical specialities for BBC Radio 4 and the new-style "populist" BBC Radio 3 and has appeared on television and in films. In 2007 he presented Stuart Maconie's TV Towns for ITV3, six one-hour shows about TV and film locations in Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool and London. I don’t recognise the brand,” Dean replies, tries to act casual and put a gloss on the horrible awkwardness that’s dogged all their interactions. Part of Dean protests, begs to know why he should bother hiding the fact that he doesn’t like Novak, when Novak himself doesn’t bother to do the same in return. He has to put that aside. Right now Novak is helping, grudging though it may be, and Dean can’t risk him changing his mind. There are kind looks from his favourite contestants-in-arms; a sympathetic smile from Jody Mills, a well-that’s-life-what-can-you-do shrug from Charlie Bradbury, and then there’s Andy “I learned to bake by making space cakes” Gallagher, who has Dean huffing out a laugh as he blinks at him blearily while he droops over the top of his rolling pin (suffering from the after effects of his too enthusiastic use of the free bar last night). But cooking in a tent in the middle of summer...” Charlie argued, “... in Georgia? That sounds to me like a whole other kind of baking. It doesn’t sound comfortable, even if it is next to some crumbly picturesque old house. It’s making me sweat just thinking about it.” It was good to know Dean wasn’t the only one with doubts about the travelling involved – surely it would be easier for everyone to just stay put for the duration; the closer to Kansas the better as far as he was concerned. He’d never been fond of travel, and not just because he had to pop a borrowed pill or two to get through the ordeal of flying. He was a home-body at heart, happiest among familiar sights and sounds and people.

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Are they a couple?” Sam asked. He sounded a tad disappointed but it was a reasonable assumption, and Dean was no less keen to know the answer. Make an effort,” Sam had told him. “First and last impressions are the ones that count the most.” No doubt that was something he’d been taught in lawyer school, and he shushed Dean’s arguments about how he didn’t give a crap about any of that. “You want to win don’t you?” Sam asked, serious all of a sudden. I doubt she told you anything of the sort,” Sarah protested, “and stop being melodramatic, Castiel.” Dean wanted to kiss her, but he’d leave Sam to do that, in the mean time he’d take her word over Novak’s on pretty much anything.

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What’s happening?” Dean asked, bemused by the reactions. Agitation spread through the room. It made the air feel odd, close, and heavy with expectation (though admittedly that might have been the heat from the two unnecessary fires burning in ornamental fireplaces on either side of the room). He was missing something here, something important, and he didn’t like it. A muscle in Dean’s jaw twitched as his irritation increased. Maconie, Stuart (2023). The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0008498269. What social life, Castiel? Please enlighten me as to when you’ve been doing all this socialising without me noticing.”