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early life and education
Ann Hagen, (born 31 July 1943) is the author of 3 books on the processing and consumption, and production and distribution of Anglo-Saxon food and drink.

Born Ann Smallridge

Spouse Richard Hagen married 1970 divorced 1992

Biography

Hagen was born in Kempston, Bedfordshire, to Arthur Smallridge from North Devon, and Peggy from a line of Bedfordshire farmers. She attended Up End School, Kempston, where a teacher enthused his class by reading his own translation of "Beowulf" and made the link with the large early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Kempston.

After passing the 11+, she attended Bedford High School. In 1965, she was accepted for the English Honours course at University College London, where she opted for a special paper in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, studying under David Wilson.

Hagen's father regularly cooked the Sunday roast and encouraged her to cook Devonshire dishes, in particular yeast and saffron cakes. On Devonshire holidays at her aunt's diary farm, cousins caught dabs, flounders and bass in the Taw estuary, and up river, elvers and salmon. Mushrooms were picked to sell in Barnstaple market. When her aunt made hog's pudding, the intestines were washed in the river and then in a clear spring. Hagen also spent holidays on a smallholding in Cambridgeshire with a great aunt who in addition to having a large kitchen garden also kept poultry, house cows (for milk, cream and butter), and bees. She was intrigued by the different dialects especially when