The Old Foodie

I cannot believe that I have never written a story on this blog about “raising” a pie in the grand English tradition. The long immersion i...

The how and why of recipe-naming is a constant source of blog-post material for me, and to judge by the emails and comments I get, I think i...

I don’t know if you have ever found a frozen cucumber in the depths of your refrigerator, thanks to a thermostat malfunction. It is ...

I came across a rather delicious-sounding recipe for a little meringue-like cake recently, and was intrigued by the name. The recipe appeare...

I meander rather carelessly around the Oxford English Dictionary at times, so it is not surprising that sometimes, something trips me up,...

There really is no such thing under the sun as brand new idea in cookery. Take foam for example. Foam-making seems to have been raised to ...

One more jubilee post for the time being, folks, for the royalists, the pudding fans, the word lovers, and the eternally historically ...