The Old Foodie

The United Brewer’s Industrial Foundation produced a recipe booklet in 1937 to promote the use of beer in cookery. A beer-themed luncheon me...

I am coming good today on the promise I made to find more recipes for the beer-themed luncheon mentioned in a post earlier in the week. T...

If you have ever wanted a beer-themed dinner for the beer-lover in your life, I do believe I have found a prototype menu for you to follow. ...

I have a new word today – new for me that is. I was reading about the old profession of ale-conning (that’s not the word, yet). An ale-con...

Today, June 28 th Samuel Pepys enjoyed a trendy seventeenth century drink on this day in 1664: “…thence with my uncle Wight to the Mum ...

Today, June 19 th … According to the French Revolutionary Calendar, what we now call June 19 th (or sometimes the 20 th ) was the first...

Today, January 11th… The novelist Thomas Hardy died on this day in 1928, and forty years later a commemorative ale was released in his honou...

Today, December 15th … Things were pretty grim for Washington’s forces at Valley Forge in December 1777. The surgeon, Albigence Waldo had hi...

Today, December 6th … What a relief to have a jolly saint for the day – one who is rotund and generous rather than skeletal and ascetic! It ...