The Old Foodie

Yesterday I gave you some extracts from a recent Google Books find - Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated (John Timbs) published in Lon...

January 22 The English poet Lord George Gordon Byron was born on this day in 1788. He is best known to foodies as the source of the quo...

Today, July 5th Sometimes, to read old journals is to weep. Henry D. Thoreau made a small aside in his diary on this day in 1855 to the effe...