The Old Foodie

Yesterday’s source - The Complete Bread, Cake, and Cracker Baker , J. Thompson Gill, (Chicago, 1881) – taught me something new (two things a...

I am at the beach having fun with the family, so you will, I am sure, excuse the short posts. I don’t want to leave the dessert theme of yes...

I have been hoarding today’s little gem for some time. The wait has been worth it, for there is always some extra value when the story can b...

We had ‘dyspepsia bread’ on Friday, so why not ‘digestive biscuits’ today? My impression was that digestive biscuits were particularly Engl...

Sometimes I give you an ‘on this day’ story which has a food angle, but the problem with giving you the story on the actual day is that it g...

Unravelling urban myth from real history is a constant challenge, whatever the topic, isn’t it? The problem is, that if a sufficiently magic...