The Old Foodie

I have a mystery for you today. What, pray, is ‘wick-a-wack’? ‘German’ wick-a-wack, to be specific. I have a recipe for it, and my inference...

The people of Britain were faced with a particular dilemma early in 1917. The First World War was dragging wearily on, and there was a serio...

Adding regularly to the Vintage Christmas Recipes archive but avoiding too much duplication is becoming a challenge after several years ...

In August 1854 the New York Daily Times followed up on an article a few weeks earlier on a ‘new rival to tea.’ A Dr. Stenhouse was the e...

March 11 ... One would not normally consider an ornithology book to be the source of an interesting recipe, but Bird Life of Heligol...

February 26 ... Yesterday’s wonderful source – the Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1715) was so happy to be discovered that it has dona...

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, March 16th … The novelist Sybille Bedford was born on this day in 1911. Her surname was a legacy of her brief marriage to an Englishm...