Food History Jottings

A swan pie I made for the exhibition 'London Eats Out' held at the Museum of London in 2000. I have just listened to a BBC radi...

Pennyroyal ( Mentha pulegium L.) has been used as a culinary and medicinal herb since antiquity. One of its popular English synonyms ...

Some Culinary Footnotes In my Northern garden the white currants are just ripening as the last of the elderflowers are opening For t...

Charlotte Mason's 1773 Jaune Mange made in the form of the sun When I was a child in the 1950s, a common sweet served at our school...