Food History Jottings

Saturday, 22 December 2012

From Jardiniere to Satyr Pie

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A copper jardiniere with a hidden history New insights into Britain's extraordinary culinary history sometimes turn up in quite ...
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Thursday, 20 December 2012

Eat the Entire Creation if you dare ....

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...but Beware of the Fatal Effects of Gluttony I have often thought that if the great biblical deluge had taken place in the eighteenth...
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An Aenigmatical Bill of Fare

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In a May 2011 posting on her marvellous blog Homo Gastronomicus , India Mandelkern transcribed some very unusual royal Christmas menus ...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Supper with Shakespeare

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A banquet of sweetmeats. This sugary assemblage is dominated by a 'standard' in the form of an edible banquetting house sited in a...
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Feast Your Eyes

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A sugar paste church based on one originally made for Queen Victoria;s ball supper in Hatfield House in 1845 I spent a great deal of t...
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

My 2013 Food History Courses

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An authentic Victorian Wedding Cake ornamented with gum paste motifs printed from original nineteenth century moulds . Make and decorate ...
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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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