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Sarah Murray is author of Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre, How We Dignify the Dead (Coptic Publishing, London 2011; St Martin’s Press, New York 2011; Picador, New York 2012) and Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat (Aurum Press, London 2007; St Martin’s Press, New York 2007; Picador, New York 2008).

Sarah is journalist and feature writer who specializes in the relationship of business to society and the environment, a topic she has covered since the late 1990s. A longtime Financial Times contributor, she also writes research reports on business and sustainability for the Economist Group.

Born in the UK, Sarah has lived in London, where she was an editor at the Financial Times, Hong Kong, where she was an editor and reporter at the South China Morning Post, Hanoi, where she helped launch the Vietnam Economic Times, an English-language business magazine, and South Africa, where she worked as a freelance writer. She is now based in New York City.

Her websites can be found at www.makinganexit.net and www.moveablefeasts.org

Blog Entries by Sarah Murray

Death - The Great Unmentionable

Posted January 23, 2012 | 1/23/12

Let's talk about death. No? You'd rather not think about it? Another time, perhaps? This is often the response I get when raising this subject. It seems our modern relationship with mortality is far from comfortable. While we love to parade it across cinema and TV screens in its goriest...

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What's Cooking This Christmas? Oh, It's Just a Candle?

Posted November 14, 2007 | 11/14/07

As the holidays approach, the usual bombardment of festive advertising is starting to appear on TV screens around the country. One ad in particular has intrigued me.

It shows a woman getting ready to welcome her family over to the house for dinner. In her hand she has a...

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World Food Day: Thinking Outside the Vegetable Box

Posted October 16, 2007 | 10/16/07

The last time I was in London, I picked up a packet of extra fine green beans from a Tesco supermarket. The label, which I kept and which has been sitting on my desk ever since, intrigued me. The amount of information packed on to this small sticker reminds me...

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To Boldly Go: Global Food Marches Forward

Posted July 10, 2007 | 7/10/07

The wildly international nature of America's culinary culture never ceases to amaze me. I'd barely spent ten minutes wandering through the aisles at this week's Fancy Food Show before I'd sampled a Belgian chocolate, a tangy English cheddar, a cup of fragrant white tea -- made from the tips of...

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