The Old Foodie

Sandwich Casserole was a new concept for me when I discovered the following recipe in a 1930’s  newspaper.  It seemed to be quite a commo...

Some long time ago, I used to have a more-or-less relevant ‘Quotation for the Day’ at the end of each post. After a few years, it became ha...

One thing leads to another, as they say, and this is certainly true of culinary history research. Yesterday I referred to a USDA Farmers’ B...

The principles and practice of not wasting bread are themes I refer to quite regularly for several, hopefully fairly obvious reasons. Onc...

I have another traveller’s food tale for you today. It is from Extracts from a journal written on the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico: in...

It is a long time since I had fun with old food words. I was reminded of this when I referred to the definition of granade (in yesterday’s...

Last week I gave you a brief story about the pomegranate ( here ). In it I mentioned the old-fashioned dish called a grenade (granade, gran...

Next Sunday, the 7th of September, is Father’s Day in Australia. I know that this day is celebrated on many different dates around the wo...

The pomegranate is the fruit of Punica granatum, and humans have been growing it for at least five thousand years, making it one of the o...

Many recipes using chili peppers or cayenne powder have appeared here over the years, but I thought it might be fun to focus on one period ...