The Old Foodie

Today I want to continue the theme of the ‘top ten forgotten foods of Britain’, which I picked up yesterday with the story on Rook Pie. Six ...

In a post several years ago I gave the list of the top ten forgotten British foods, as decided by a competition run in 2006 by the Guild...

Some time ago I wrote a little about the problem of dealing with tainted meat in the days before refrigeration. Many methods of deal...

Did you ever wonder why and where the ‘Baker’s Dozen’ idea originated?   The written phrase was first recorded in 1599, but we know that f...

Even the kitchen adepts amongst you would probably tremble if you were on Master Chef and were asked to ‘smoor’ a rabbit or chicken. You cou...

I know that for many of you, dessert is the highlight of the meal. I know several people who always check out the dessert menu first, to see...

Today I am off to Far North Queensland for a brief holiday, and my food-mind leaps to .... mangoes! It is early in the season, it is tru...

The diaries of nineteenth century colonial wives give a fascinating glimpse into the era, the lifestyle, the attitudes – and, of course, th...

‘White Pot’ is - or was - a well-known dish associated with Devon, England in times past. I give you a couple of descriptions, so that you ...

One of the other ‘oddities’ that featured on the mid-nineteenth century Parisian ‘Chinese’ menu I gave you the other day was ‘ swallows...

The mid-nineteent century Parisian ‘Chinese’ menu I gave you the other day included a dish called oluthuries à la mandarine . This was a...

It is a while since I have given you a menu - and it is only a part-description I offer you today - but it picks yesterday’s theme up nice...