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Another fabulous episode of #TheKitchenCabinet from favourite foods to gorge on, #cauliflower, and making #beetroot palatable. Featuring @DrAnnieGray, @jayrayner1, and the usual cast of knowledgeable culinary characters. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #foodhistory #foodstudies #cookery

In case you missed it, Episode 8 (quarter final) of the 2025 series of #TheGreatPotteryThrowdown required the remaining potters to make #posset pots (covered at hdclump.com/the-great-po...). #foodhistory #drinkhistory

I had to look up #JanceSauce because I'd completely blanked what this 15th century recipe is. For the record, it's a white-wine-based sauce meant for seafood. greneboke.com/recipes/janc... #foodhistory

I had to look up #JanceSauce because I'd completely blanked what this 15th century recipe is. For the record, it's a white-wine-based sauce meant for seafood. greneboke.com/recipes/janc... #foodhistory

Good afternoon! This delicious history of the world, through a meal in a resturant in Rome is your fun evening listen! An interview with food writer Andrea Viestad about his latest book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... #podcast #food #history #Rome #dinner #foodhistory

'...[B]etween 2015 and 2024, climate change increased the number of days each country experiences temperature ranges above the ideal for cacao growth by an average of two to four weeks annually...when the plants bloom and produce beans.' #foodhistory #climatechange #cacao gizmodo.com/why-chocolat...

The sweet shop, 1966. (Words we Need for Numbers) Artist: Kenneth Inns

Or #GirlGuide cookies, as they are known in Canada and other countries. chatelaine.com/living/girl-... #foodhistory #biscuits #fundraising

Second line after Pableaux’s memorial Saturday in New Orleans We cried and laughed and hugged and made new friends and ate red beans and drank bourbon

if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.

[In an interview with @lemonde, the teacher in AgroToulouse and researcher associated with Cevipof analyses the springs of the current polarization of the agricultural environment...] www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti... #foodstudies #agriculture #France

@anthrodish.bsky.social on #Guinness: 'It would be easy to lambast it all, but Guinness is complex, a pint representing the ongoing legacy of carving perspectives out for the working class by the industry.' open.substack.com/pub/sarahdui... #drinkhistory #CostOfLiving #foodhistory

CFP: Food and Drink as Education Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2-3 Oct 2025. The fifth conference in this series 'aims to gather individuals from diverse academic disciplines and those interested in food and drink from various perspectives' foodaseducation.weebly.com #foodstudies

The CFS Choux Questionnaire Lenore Newman #CFS #Choux #Questionnaire #ChouxQuestionnaire #LenoreNewman #FoodAndAgriculture #FraserValley #Innovation canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

was interviewed for this very cool exploration of campus food plant-based eating by @nationalobserver.com — nice to be featured alongside Dr Tammara Soma, too! www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/20/n...

How old is a Greek salad? And how 'Greek' for that matter? Who introduced the potato to the Greeks? How do myths and superstitions about food spread through a culture? Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #podcast #food #Greekfood #historypodcsat #foodpodcast #greekhistory

Hello BlueSkiers! 3000 followers here! wow! Lovely to have you here! If each one of you downloads and listens to one episode, then we are going to be on the charts for sure! Come on, let's make it happen, no? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #podcast #foodhistory #historypodcast #foodpodcast

An article about why #pork is taboo to two major religions. It's an intriguing deep dive on this divisive, complex topic. archaeology.org/issues/march... #foodhistory #foodrevulsion #Mishnah #Talmud #Koran #foodarchaeology #Kashrut #Halal #foodways

A timely post from @AtlasObscura's #GastroObscura feed as I finish reading John O'Connor's, 'The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary'. #Cardamom has always been a part of Scandinavian cuisine in my family. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how... #spices

ICYMI: How scientists finally solved the mystery of the Irish Famine. What caused Ireland's potato famine? After 168 years, scientists discovered the strain of potato blight that led to Irish devastation. www.irishcentral.com/roots/histor... #foodhistory #potatofamine #potatoblight #research

New #foodstudies/#foodhistory book: Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters, by Jennifer Clapp mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... #agriculture #agribusiness #transnationalcoporations

Tonight! In Portland! 6pm at Broadway Books. I'll be in conversation with Anne Zimmerman, author of a biography of MFK Fisher. Come out and listen to us talk about the history of food and sex! www.broadwaybooks.net/event/2025-0...

I'm thinking it might be time to develop a homegrown aluminium can manufacturing industry. #drinkhistory #brewing #BC #tariffs #craftbeer #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Patsy Young likely learned how to brew beer from a fellow enslaved person, perhaps on Nathaniel Hunt’s plantation or in the kitchen of a Halifax tavern. What kinds of beer did she brew as a free woman, between 1808 and 1823?' www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2021/9/... #Blackhistory #brewing

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It's #realbreadweek! Get to know real bread better with my book Knead to Know: A History of Baking published by Icon Books. Whether it be manchet, maslin, cottage loaf, teacake, bread bun, pumpernickel, sourdough, pain de campagne or coburg...

Are we listening? Fun episode with Mary, telling me all about the different strands of the origins of the Ottoman Cuisine through the centuries. And explore the myriad dishes, with vegetables, cheeses, sweets and savoury inventions of the Ottomans. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/79XT...

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A personalized Valentine’s Card for Bibliophiles. My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

A curious puff piece about peak haute condiment in the US. Each to their own. Pass the mushroom ketchup, please. slate.com/life/2025/02... #foodstudies #foodhistory #condiments

Hollygog pudding. Anyone wish to prove it existed before the English Tourist Board (I think) made it up in 1976? Grumpily, etc.

'...[W]ith costs so high and the temperatures low...I started playing around with some of the Molly Goldberg recipes, and the first one I wanted to try was the pickle soup.' #foodhistory #nostalgia #soup #CelebrityCookbooks

Les meilleurs vins - the best wines. Late 1940s poster for Algerian wine showing a simplified version of the Bell X-1, the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound (in 1947).

A keeper from last week's New Yorker for my fellow early modernists.

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'Tableware changed with the introduction of forks in the early 1600s ... but “Sausages continued to be popular”.' Pen Vogler on the popularity of traditional English cooking

This is always a fascinating podcast series from @neilbuttery.bsky.social, and this episode is especially great as an #AlexisSoyer fan. open.spotify.com/episode/44Em... #foodhistory #CelebrityChefs #ReformClub #faminerelief #CrimeanWar