The Old Foodie

The Cabbage has been a staple vegetable for humans for millenia. We probably domesticated the wild form well over two thousand years ago, wh...

I wanted to end ‘cabbage week’ with something really wild, but I cannot think of anything more outrageous than Sauerkraut Cake , which we ha...

I had a mind to make leftover cabbage the subject of today’s post, but, really, why would you consider anything else when you can make Bubbl...

Cabbage was a great mainstay for the British housewife during World War II. It was home-grown – sometimes literally, in garden beds and allo...

‘Bubble and Squeak’ is an English dish originally made up of “meat and cabbage fried up together.” Nowadays the meat is often replaced with...

This week I have set myself a little challenge – to see if I can keep you interested over a whole week of posts on the topic of cabbage. T...

When I am onto an interesting source, I do find it hard to move on, as regular readers probably realise (and to be truthful, in busy weeks i...

The author of One Thousand Simple Soups (1907) had an utterly fearless approach to making cabbage soup. She argues: “One who will take th...

Today, April 26th … This day in 1909 was the birthday of columnist William Neil Connor, who wrote as ‘Cassandra’ in the London Daily Mirror ...