The Old Foodie

For a brief while in the mid-nineteenth century, the London Lady’s Newspaper and Pictorial Times carried a series of “Culinary Monograph...

Today I bring you another story from one of my favourite sources – the scripts of the United States Department of Agriculture Radio Service...

Thanksgiving, Pearl Harbour, 1945. Today, in honour of the brave men and women in the military who put their lives on the line for us, ...

Dear Friends - especially those of you from the USA - may I give you the links to my previous posts on Thanksgiving? Tomorrow there will be...

The British Wartime Ministry of Food’s Food Facts leaflets are one of my favourite things, as regular readers would be aware. Today I wa...

John Tradescant (the Elder) was a seventeenth century English horticulturalist and avid collector of anything and everything from the nat...

After a long break, The Old Foodie is back. I wont promise at this stage that I will return to five posts a week as I did without fail for ...

My Dear and Loyal Readers, After over ten years of five-times a week posting to this blog, this Old Foodie has decided to take a break. ...

As I mentioned yesterday, the part of south-east Queensland where I am spending a couple of days is an increasingly important wine-produc...

I am spending a couple of days in a lovely little cabin in the bush just outside Stanthorpe, in south-east Queensland. The region is know...