Are we actually progammed to eat unhealthy food - and was sparrow pie really a staple dish during rationing in World War II? This week's Answers to Correspondents tucks into a smorgasbord of food and cooking questions with help from author and Mail on Sunday food columnist Tom Parker Bowles. As always, questions from Daily Mail readers are provided by Charles Legge, editor of the Daily Mail’s long-running Answers to Correspondents column.

<p>Are we actually progammed to eat unhealthy food - and was sparrow pie really a staple dish during rationing in World War II? This week's Answers to Correspondents tucks into a smorgasbord of food and cooking questions with help from author and Mail on Sunday food columnist Tom Parker Bowles. As always, questions from Daily Mail readers are provided by Charles Legge, editor of the Daily Mail&rsquo;s long-running Answers to Correspondents column.</p>

This new bi-weekly podcast is based on the Daily Mail's long-running Answers to Correspondents page, with writer Charles Legge and other Daily Mail experts answering weird and wonderful reader questions on subjects from sport to science, from history to pop music, from the sensible to the surreal. Each new episode will grapple with questions on a new subject, every other Friday. 

<p>This new bi-weekly podcast is based on the Daily Mail's long-running Answers to Correspondents page, with writer Charles Legge and other Daily Mail experts answering weird and wonderful reader questions on subjects from sport to science, from history to pop music, from the sensible to the surreal. Each new episode will grapple with questions on a new subject, every other Friday.&nbsp;</p>

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