Captain Warren’s Cooking Pot
A type of pot used during the colonial era, as well as in Victorian England in general, Captain Warren’s Cooking …
Category Archives: England
Feeding France’s Grande Armée: A Pictorial Tribute for Memorial Day
An army marches on its stomach. ~~Napoleon Bonaparte~~ And Napoleon Bonaparte would know. He, like Adolph Hitler in another time, …
Will Verral’s Masterpiece of 1759: A Complete System of Cookery
The English could never catch a break in the kitchen. Why, as early as 1759, in A Complete System of …
Why Bother with Culinary History?
A friend recently asked me, “Why is culinary history important?” Actually, her words came out of her mouth a little …
The Duke of Newcastle’s Pique, or, A Good Chef is Hard to Find
The diarist Samuel Pepys, no mean observer of human foibles that relieve the monotony of day-to-day human life, recorded — …
French Chefs Abroad: Clouet to Newcastle, Part I
Once upon a time, every duke and lord in the kingdom coveted his neighbor’s French cook (or chef). And no …
French Chefs Abroad: Alexis Soyer and His Irish Famine Soup Kitchen
It is to be regretted that men of science do not interest themselves more than they do on a subject …
News and Views
First of, I would like to point out a new feature on “Gherkins & Tomatoes / Cornichons & Tomatoes.” Go …
Idylls of Cuisine, #92
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Isabella Beeton (Part II)
(Continued from August 23, 2010): Brillat-Savarin’s comments about the English being the worst cooks in the world drew a sniff …
