A Kipper for Breakfast
You might not know it from this blog, but I love cooking and eating as well as thinking about cooking and eating. To prove that I am not totally cerebral…
Read moreWhy did our ancestors prefer white bread to wholegrains?
A couple of days ago, a reader contacted me to ask me to clarify my post on why our ancestors preferred white bread. I checked the post. It’s been consistently one…
Read moreHeavy Lifting: The Potato, the Poor, and Pleasure in Ireland
In this long post (you’ve been warned), I’m going to try to imagine the potato cuisine of the Irish poor in the century before the Great Famine of 1845-52. In…
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