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Tag Archives: London
Preparing Edible Garbage and How to Cook Shoes
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC “Crazy Shoe Stew” from Cool Songs Collection & Times Table Fun by William Avery. Released: 2007 No doubt, we’ve all had a meal that we found distasteful, inedible and would have just as soon … Continue reading
Posted in Collecting, Collections, Cookbooks, Cooking, Cooking and Social History, Food Trends, Guinness World Records, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vintage Cookbooks
Tagged Cookbook, cookbooks, Cooking, English Cooking, food history, Guinness World Record, London, social history, Sue Jimenez, time capsules, Vintage Cookbooks
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“I Say, Old Chap – Do Not Huckle-my-Buff and Kindly Stop Playing with your Chappit Tatties!”
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Rule Britannia” from Elgar Variations by Brass Band Willebroek & Raf Van Looveren. Released: 2007 This might be considered a sequel to “Stargazey Pies and Stinking Bishops– Oh, Those Wonderful Brits!“, which I … Continue reading
Posted in Collecting, Cookbooks, Cooking, Cooking and Social History, Food Trends, Guinness World Records, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vintage Cookbooks
Tagged Cookbook, cookbooks, Cooking, English Cooking, food history, Guinness World Record, London, social history, Sue Jimenez, time capsules, Vintage Cookbooks
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Stargazey Pies and Stinking Bishops– Oh, Those Wonderful Brits!
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Rule Britannia” from Elgar Variations by Brass Band Willebroek & Raf Van Looveren. Released: 2007 For many years, while I was growing up in Toronto, my sister and I had a regular babysitter, … Continue reading
Posted in Cookbooks, Cooking, Cooking and Social History, Food Trends, Uncategorized, Vintage Cookbooks
Tagged Bangers and Mash, Bubble and Squeak, Canterbury Cathedral, cookbooks, English Cookery, English Cooking, English Recipes, English Regional Cooking, Glastonbury, London, Oxford, social history, Somerset, Sue Jimenez, Sussex, time capsules
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A Vintage Cookbookery Mystery – The Tortuous Tale of the Trek from the Tainted Tins
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Sinfonia Antarctica” from Sinfonia Antarctica by Vaughan Williams These days, we tend to take for granted that the canned goods we buy at the supermarket are, more or less, safe. Of course, we … Continue reading
The 30,000 Calorie Christmas Dinner, for One
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, food is sure to be at the center of it. Just for fun, I found some interesting food trivia suited for a holiday post: The 30,000 Calorie Christmas Dinner (for one) In … Continue reading
What’s Your Gastronomic Age?
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY Music – “I Like What I Eat” from Songs To Strike A Chord by Jon Barker. A wonderful book by Annette Hope, “Londoners’ Larder’, traces “English Cuisine from Chaucer to the Present”, published in 2005. Tracing … Continue reading
Posted in Cookbooks, Cooking, Cooking and Social History, Cooking Technology, Eating, Food Trends, Vintage Cookbooks
Tagged Annette Hope, Beefaroni, cookbooks, Cooking, El Bulli, English Cuisine, Ferran Adria, food history, Gastronomic Age, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kitchen Gadgets, London, Molecular Gastronomy, social history, time capsules, Wylie Dufresne
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So, Who was Marcel Boulestin?
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY Music – “Quel Fromage #1” from Club De Paris – Traditional French Cafe Music by Café Chill Lounge Club. I am an inveterate fan of cooking shows and have been as long as I can remember … Continue reading
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