The Old Foodie

As many of you know, I love old words - especially old regional food words. I had a sudden realization the other day that I have never shar...

The ‘Great British Breakfast’ is a relatively new ‘tradition,’ and it seems that in the past, America had the lead in grand breakfasts - at...

I guess naturalized lemons, originating from the rootstock of grafted lemons, grow just about anywhere in the world where there are neglect...

“Penny dinners” for the poor were a charitable service offered from time to time by well-meaning individuals and organisations in Britain i...

Today, especially for the bakers amongst you, I am going to give you three recipes for chocolate cake from over a period of a hundred years...

The United States Food Administrator during World War I was Herbert Hoover. His efforts to convince the American public to reduce waste r...

I was most intrigued to come across a ‘Canadian Novelty’ in an Australian newspaper from 1936. The recipe was called ‘Tumble Upside-down Ca...

The British Food Ministry published hundreds of Food Facts leaflets over the course of World War II, and a number of them have featured in...

The English idiom “in apple-pie order,” means “tidy and well-ordered” – Yes? But what is the origin of the phrase? Well, the experts disagr...

It is time I took you out to virtual luncheon again. Today we are aboard the Alaska Steamship Company’s S.S. Northwestern and it is Saturd...