The Old Foodie

December 8th in 1542 was the birthday of Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary Stewart, as we know, became Queen of Scotland at the age of six days upo...

It is strange, what we each consider disgusting in the way of food. Most of us would not consider eating cockroaches, largely because of the...

I would have been impossible to put on a feast in medieval times without huge amounts of ‘marchpane’ (marzipan), and it continued to remain ...

There is avery curious recipe for butter which I have been meaning to post for some time, in the hope that your comments will enlighten me a...

Today’s historical menu comes from the seventeenth century. The liveried companies of England held annual ‘Election Days’, at which office-b...

You probably don’t need a recipe for oxoleum - I am sure you already make it regularly- but I thought you might be interested in a seventee...

Unless they are tiny, and called navets , and served with duck, in Paris, by a handsome waiter (with a French accent, naturally), turnips l...