The Old Foodie

Yesterday’s recipe for ‘Brewet Of Almony’ reminded me that I have been intending to talk about almond milk for some time. It is difficult to...

Christmas is on the horizon, and for those of you in the USA, Thanksgiving is closer still, which means that some grand catering schemes wil...

It sometimes seems that in modern times we live in an over-legislated society, but perhaps the rules in previous times were not less, but ju...

Queen Eleanor (Leonora) of France (1498-1558) visited her brother, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (1500-1558) in Brussels in 1544. A roya...

April 16 The very strict dietary rules decreed for hundreds of years by the Christian Church were a very powerful inspiration for fake foo...

February 14 An article in the Scientific American on this day in 1852 set me off on a few thinking tangents. Skins of Raisins. We see it...

Today, July 11th ... The register of deaths at the Magistro della Sanita of Milan records that the painter Guiseppe Arcimboldo died on this ...

Today, May 18th … Peter Carl Fabergé was born on this day in 1846 in St. Petersburg, and he grew up to be the goldsmith to the Russian Imper...

Today, February 7th … This day in 1665 was a Tuesday - Shrove Tuesday to be exact - and Samuel Pepys recorded his dinner in his diary: “Up, ...

Today, January 16th … There is a charming myth that the classical northern Italian dish Risotto à la Milanaise was created in 1574 by the a...

Today, January 27th … This day in 1860 was the birthday of Sir George Sitwell, father of the writers Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, and a ...

Today, December 8 ... The Roman lyric poet Horace was born on this day in 65BC. In one of his “Satires” he illuminates the extravagant exces...

Today, November 15 … In 1930 the Italian Futurists launched their “Manifesto of Futurist Cooking” in Milan. Futurism was a 20th century arti...