Food History Jottings

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Battenburg Cake - the Truth

A factory-made Battenburg Cake - 2011 - four panels There are lots of stories about this popular English cake, which is composed of alt...

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Ivan Day: I am an independent social historian of food culture and also a professional chef and confectioner. I run practical courses on all aspects of British and Italian food history at my home in the English Lake District. I am also the author of a number of books and many papers on the history of food and have curated many major exhibitions on food history in the UK, US and Europe. The main aim of this blog is to attempt to expose and correct many of the fairy stories that are written about the history of our food. I am assisted in this task by the Food History Jottings researcher Plumcake.

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