The Old Foodie

World War II finally ended with the Armistice of 14 August 1945 (or with the formal surrender of Japan on 2nd September 1945), but rationing...

We go to Britain during World War I, for today’s bacon-focussed story. The importance of bacon to the British psyche (and nutrition status) ...

I have noticed recently a spate of recipes popping up - mostly in blogs - for bacon in such ‘odd’ things as doughnuts, muffins, ice-cream, a...

Yesterday we considered bacon and eggs as they were described and cooked in the early seventeenth century – which is pretty well the same wa...

There is something about bacon, isn’t there? I am not sure what it is, but aside from vegetarians and those who eschew it for religious reas...

I am extraordinarily fond of maple syrup. Sadly, but hardly surprisingly, the sugar maple does not grow here in the sub-tropics, so I must r...

It being cool here at present - ‘cool’ that is, for the sub-tropics - I made pea soup with ham the other day. I made an industrial quantity ...

I was most intrigued by the following article, from The Times of August 17, 1830. Yesterday the following singular rowing match took place...

It seems to me that the citizens of the world are divided into three groups when it comes to bacon: - Those who eschew it for religious re...

I have been side-tracked recently into a minor exploration of historical bacon recipes. Life’s interesting little side-tracks have a seconda...

The amazing work of the British Food Ministry during World War II continues to provide much food for thought over half a century later. Week...

Today in the kitchen word series it is the turn of the larder. Who has a larder these days? Nowadays the word ‘larder’ is sometimes used ...

I am leaving York today and heading South, to Bath . As it turns out, it is Jane Austen week, which I did not know when I booked – proving ...

Today, November 30th ... A two month siege of Rochester Castle in Kent ended on this day in 1215. The rebel barons who had siezed it were fi...