Memories of English Farmhouse Cuisine: Beyond England
Over many years in the kitchen, I have found three, and only three cookbooks that gave me a shock of recognition, only three that have evoked the cooking I knew…
Read moreServants in the Kitchen: Professed Cooks and Plain Cooks
I don’t think it’s possible to address the question of whether employers appropriated the culinary knowledge of their cooks without understanding the different kinds of cooks in domestic service. Four…
Read moreWhat’s In and What’s Out? Luxury Plant Foods in the Twentieth Century
Fashion in plant foods? Well, yes. Spices become humdrum, kale rockets from cattle feed to pampered darling of the vegetable cooler in the supermarket. A month or two ago Stephen…
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