I am enthusiastic about food and food history, and love to write about it. Every weekday I give you a short story on a food history topic - always including at least one historic recipe, and sometimes a historic menu. And how much fun is that!
I began this blog on October 31, 2005, with the intention of posting every Monday to Friday (including holiday days) without fail. I am proud to say I have not missed a day - and by the end of 2014 will have written over 2,500 posts! More often than not, more than one recipe is included (sometimes quite a few more) so the recipe count is in the many thousands.
I am the author of several books with a food history theme, and hope you read and enjoy them too!
9 comments:
bravo...i smiled all the way through your sheeps trotter recipe and had to lol at one of the comments following your recipe, asking about six or eight feet...
I have just discovered your page when looking up 'quiddany' a word mentioned in my 'Ladies Compnion' of 1753.
Thank you - your page is delightful.
Muriel Brown
Thanks for doing this! In researching significant events for April 17, I came upon Pineapple Cheese. Up you popped with your informative and hilarious piece about Mr. Norton in Troy, PA!
Wow! I just stumbled upon your blog looking for some insight into timbales, for an article I'm planning. What a delight, I'll be reading often. Thank you.
I am so, so delighted to have found your page, and am sure looking back through your posts that I am going to look forward eagerly to each new one!
I have followed your blog sporadically since 2008 when I began blogging. Something I have thought of often but have failed to ask is whether or not you prepare the recipes. I don't seem to recall reading about you trying them or if I did, I don't remember.
I truly enjoy the food history. I was just curious about your preparing them.
Hi Vicki. I almost never prepare them - although I do use them for inspiration sometimes. in their original form they are often too rich or stodgy or not to my daily-meal taste. I love reading about them though, and researching them - there is always something to learn, and. It all informs what we do - one way or another.
Thank you for your blog. I have only just discovered it & am enjoying it enormously.
I just found this wonderful blog and cannot stop reading it! Spring cleaning can wait.
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