Some more resources for food history
1. Did you know that if you were searching library catalogs for cook books, it was best to use “cookery book” as you key word, not “cook book.” I didn’t.…
Read moreHow to Make 3-D Gelatina
Several readers have asked where they can go to learn how to make the utterly amazing gelatinas they have seen in Mexico, like this captured in time cake, glorious flowers,…
Read moreBread, Celestial Made. Or Bread’s Long Journey to Hawaii
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time. This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840. If it’s hard to read the words,…
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