Helping you to understand & enjoy 18th & 19th-century food & history.
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
A mid week piece from me, on the @FT newspages. In an act of extraordinary generosity the owner of the building which houses Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, has donated it to the @nationaltrust
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Love food and the stories behind it? Don’t miss our Serve It Forth Food History Fest on 17 October! It’s online 💻
I'll be joined by @TheRegencyCook to explore Regency travel, coaching inn food, grand dinners and a little Lord Byron!
Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-fo…
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Today is Michaelmas, the autumnal feast of the mighty St Michael the Archangel - in medieval tradition the guardian of high places, weigher of souls after death, heavenly warrior against the forces of evil, and defender against the dark. aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
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C. S. Lewis introduced The Chronicles of Narnia with a message to his goddaughter:
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Delighted to welcome @TheRegencyCook, to my Serve It Forth session, Food on the Move: Travel and Dining in the Regency.
We’ll follow the Regency traveller from inns to country houses, with historical food along the way.
17 Oct, 2–3pm. Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-fo…
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The Box in Plymouth - another of the shortlisted museums for Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award! @theboxplymouth @artfund
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Lovely pic from @TheRegencyCook including sweet peas prompted me to share this poem about sweet peas and clouds from my book Sudden Arabesque:
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The best bun must be the Swedish semlor, flavoured with cardamom and filled with whipped cream and marzipan. So could legend has it that in 1771 King Adolf Fredrik ate so many that he died!!
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Dad used to get us to to ‘piggy back’ the last sliver of soap to the new bar, under his ‘waste not want not’ philosophy.
I still do it today… 😇
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102 Wavertree High Street, Liverpool. The only surviving Georgian shop front in the city, with its bowed shop windows and flanked by Tuscan half columns. Should be Grade l listed.
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"Here Cooks may learn with wondrous Ease,
The longing Appetite to please;
The Art of Beauty how to reach,
By skilful Methods too we teach;
The fair who with our Rules comply
May catch the Heart, & charm the Eye"
From Amelia Chambers 1800
Ladies Best Companion
I'm sold. Are you?
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Last surviving example of a Georgian bowed shop window in Liverpool. Wavertree High Street.
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The practice of eating Wensleydale cheese with Christmas cake in Yorkshire, dates back at least to the Victorian era.
The first written reference appears in a book by Joseph Lucas in 1871 which describes families sharing Yule cakes and cheese on Christmas Eve #folkloresunday
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LOST APPLE 'RYMER' REDISCOVERED! Thanks to amazing sleuthing by Stephen Ainsleigh Rice in England and Gary Sully in Australia, this wonderful cooking apple has been confirmed rediscovered. Believed lost for nearly 100 years, DNA testing shows it was a grandparent of Bramley. 1/3
