The Old Foodie

December 10 … The Melbourne Punch gave a menu for an “All Australian Meal” on this day in 1925, by way of some sort of patriotic stat...

December 7 …. The English smallgoods company T.Wall and Sons introduced their new product ‘ macon ’ – at a brunch (which the newspape...

December 6 ... Much to the delight of the tea-loving British, the tea ration was temporarily doubled in 1942, as a concession to the C...

December 5 … Sir Henry Tate died on this day in 1899, leaving two great bequests to Britain . The grandest is the Tate Gallery in London , w...

December 4 … The most enduring and likely theory of hospital food is that it is based on sound economic theory. It is designed to ge...

December 3 … Some random “on this day” browsing turned up a piece of apparently un-food-related trivia: today is the anniversary of the...

It is getting to be quite a challenge to find gingerbread recipes to add to the archive that have a different 'spin' on them! Here a...

November 30 ... Today is Mark Twain’s one hundred and seventy second birthday. I am not sure, but I think he is the third most often qu...

November 29 ... Yesterday’s post reminded me of a great lady and a little gem of a book that I met while I was in Norfolk , England , ...

November 28 … If you are a member of the Idle Rich in the Northern Hemisphere, at this time of the year your thoughts may well be turning t...

November 27 ... At risk of boring you, I could not resist staying with our cookbook of yesterday’s post, the Domestic Economy, and cook...

November 26 ... Kedgeree is a peculiarly Anglo-Indian concoction. It apparently began with khitchr – a dish based on a mixture of rice ...

November 23 Today is the feast day of St.Clement, the patron saint of blacksmiths and of the Worshipful Company of Bakers, and m...

November 22 … Just in case your little darlings are still complaining about school and school food, here is a second story to use in a (...

November 21 ... Do you have, or do you know, any children who complain about school, food, life, the Universe, and Everything Else...

November 20 ... Sir Jo hn Harington, the “saucy godson” of Queen Elizabeth I, and the man who first got the idea of the flush toilet d...

November 19 ... I was planning to discuss the meaning of puddings today, but my bloggy friend Jo e Pastry beat me to it with his wonder...

There are so many gingerbread recipes now in the Through the Ages with Gingerbread archive that it is getting to be quite a challenge to fi...

My friend P. sent me this response to my story on chilli-heat . I thought you would love it too. "I have a couple of friendl...

November 16 … I saw a pseudo-historic article recently that referred to the “white meat” eaten by the peasants of a few hundred years a...