Food History Jottings

I thought that some of you who follow this blog might be interested in some lectures I am giving over the next few months. I am in Hartford,...

Pharaonical Feasts and a Regency Ghost William (Gugliamo) Jarrin (1784-1848). Stipple engraving (1820).  I have not posted an articl...

Some spices commonly used in the preparation of hippocras - starting in the left hand bottom corner and rotating clockwise - grains of p...

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

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