A rose by any other name would smell as sweet – but not taste half as good!
Category Archive: History
I have a friend who won’t eat dairy. This means I cannot offer her my mince pies. My […]
Reliable Recipes: Modern Cookery for Private Families, Eliza Acton, 1897 ed.
The topic of Gelato has been on my horizon for a while, I just needed to work my […]
The aromatic Fenugreek
When I was small my parents would, when we went camping (ugh), on starry nights, point out the […]
Walnuts – the name may be ‘derived from the the old English term “welsh”, meaning “foreign”‘.
I came across an intriguing piece of information the other day – the origin of the word Pie. […]
A few weeks ago I was intent on writing about Queen of Puddings. I got waylaid, instead writing […]
I was going to write about Queen of Puddings but got distracted when I found a little goldmine […]
Curious Foodies 