Eccles cakes.

That is all.

Here is our March newsletter! The ESRC School Meals Service 🍽 team have been busy with archive trips, activities with our partner schools and the first of this year's conferences. #histed ICHRE at UCL IOE Education@Sheffield WLV Education Gurpinder Lalli Dr Isabelle Carter Dr. Ellen Bishop Laura-Casey Newman

ICYMI: a brand-new podcast episode about the Scottish Salt Industry landed. My guests were Joanna Hambly, Aaron Allen (Mary'sChapelProject) & Ed Bethune (@waggonway1722). A fascinating discussion!

Just search for 'The British Food History Podcast' wherever you can get podcasts.

Montgomeryshire WT Hedgehogs don't eat slugs, it's a myth - a very stubborn one, I'm afraid.

Episode 2 of A Is For Apple Podcast has landed. This week sam bilton and Dr Alessandra Pino and I discuss aromatics beginning with A. What would you have chosen?

Check out the Substack post (contains a link to the ep!).

open.substack.com/pub/aisforappl…

Welcome to our second episode of A Is For Apple Podcast in which Dr Neil Buttery sam bilton and Dr Alessandra Pino discuss asafoetida,allspice and aniseed.

Available here 🎧:

player.captivate.fm/episode/5b3b35…

ICYMI: A new podcast episode landed this week where I chatted with Pen Vogler about her fantastic book 'Stuffed' (+ many other things!)

Available on all podcast apps, just search for 'The British Food History Podcast'.

Afternoon folks. A wee reminder that the 38th Leeds Symposium on Food History & Traditions is on 27 April.

I'm talking as are Jenny Cousins, Marc Meltonville, Peter Brears & David Eveleigh. Tickets are £25 (bargain). More deets & tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/presenting-t…

It's that special time of the year...time to cook up a dock pudding!

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“This book engages an impressive array of issues of anthropological concern but that it does this through the medium of ethnographic fiction is what really sets it apart.” Luis Vivanco, University of Vermont

Read a free excerpt: bit.ly/3IJA8nO #Anthropology #Ethnography #booktwt

I really enjoyed talking to writer/cook Dr Neil Buttery for his podcast - esp for his deeply learnt knowledge of past recipes. Reminds me of William Kitchiner who said he wrote his cookbook with a pen in one hand and a spit in the other.

Some light reading from the blog vaults: The Treacle Mines of England. One of my most commented upon posts!

britishfoodhistory.com/2012/04/01/the…

An exciting discovery from Scotland - this 1800-year-old slice of pizza was recently unearthed in the ruins of a broch. The dish was introduced to the region c. AD 83 by the Romans. Fragments of oil jars found nearby suggest that the Picts deep fried rather than baked their pizza