The Labour peer and veteran broadcaster told Politics.co.uk attitudes towards sexuality had shifted since she made her 2001 documentary Taboo, which
explored issues of taste, decency and censorship.
In «Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and
Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen,» Wall
explores the subversive, witty and largely undocumented ways that women
of the period used recipes and food to do everything from read, write and treat illness to wax philosophic about
issues still debated today.