GastroHistory

Modern so-called 'English' muffins, not #crumpets/#pikelets/etc., were purportedly the innovation of Samuel Bath Thomas, an English-born baker, in...the US (ca. 1880). It's complicated. https://britishfoodhistory.com/2020/11/22/the-muffin-crumpet-continuum/ #foodhistory #HannahGlasse @neilbuttery.bsky.social

'If America has a recognizable food culture, Elizabeth David is its inspiration.' https://werehistory.org/the-evolution-of-american-foodie-culture/ #foodhistory #MFKFisher #ElizabethDavid #JamesBeard #JuliaChild #rationing #postWWII #foodmovements #UK #US

'PepsiCo is to cut the prices of some of its snack products in the US, following backlash against previous price hikes and pressure in the face of appetite-suppressing GLP-1 jabs.' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2y38v4prvo #foodstudies #snackfoods #inflation

What a fabulous #foodhistory resource for the #crisp and #snackfood historians in the group. https://sportsbanger.com/products/u-k-crisp-packets-book

#TomScott on how the holes (or eyes) in Swiss cheese were saved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evV05QeSjAw #foodscience #foodhistory #cheeseproduction

The 1865 patented Starrett Meat and Vegetable Chopper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgi-ON9HxlU #foodhistory #laboursavingdevices #kitchentools

'From Singapore and Malaysia arguing over Hainanese chicken rice and hawker centres, to China and South Korea clashing over kimchi and bibimbap, food has become a proxy for deeper debates about history, identity and power.' https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0mq9f54 #foodstudies #foodhistory #Asia

#Yorkshirepuds #HannahGlasse #foodhistory #mural #publicart #foodart #MaltonUK https://www.yorkshirepudd.co.uk/malton-yorkshire-pudding/

ICYMI: Letters from the Levant On the Pork Taboo: Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs
https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2025/letters-from/on-the-origin-of-the-pork-taboo/ #foodistory #foodtaboos #religiouspractices #pork

H/T to friend Professor Nick, who thought I needed to inflict this on my followers. I'm not sure if even The Mid-Century Menu Vintage Recipes or the Show Me Your Aspics group would be willing to tackle this questionable recipe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaC172yGlxI #foodhistory #gelatin

Festive shrimp? Erm...OK. #foodart

In the course of studying #foodhistory over the years, corporate greed seems to be an obvious problem in the grocery sector. Little wonder that so many independent mum-and-pop grocers seem so much less expensive by comparison. See also https://brandsownedby.com/who-owns-loblaws/

https://cultmtl.com/2025/06/canada-needs-to-curb-corporate-greed-and-break-up-grocery-monopolies/

Grace Dent is right: 'The magic is in the make-believe – we don’t mind the smoke-and-mirror nature of these shows, not least because they provide a valuable counselling service at a very stressful time.' Give me a holiday cookery show with #foodhistorians #IvanDay, #AnnieGray, etc., in it any time. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/14/grace-dent-tv-christmas-specials-comment-recipes-just-here-to-gawp-review #holidays #foodstudies #cookeryshows #foodhistory

How to eat #raman as presented wonderfully in the 1985 film #Tampopo by the late, great director Itami Jūzō. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2blfrQBH1g

ICYMI: Dickens and the Spirit of Twelfth Cake Past by @PenVogler https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/charles-dickens-museum/dickens-and-the-spirit-of-twelfth-cake-past-by-pen-vogler #foodhistory #TwelfthNight #cakes #SmokingBishop #Dickens

'Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband bars can no longer be called chocolate after #Nestlé reformulated their recipes due to the increasing cost of ingredients... “encased in a smooth milk chocolate flavour coating”, rather than being covered in milk chocolate.' https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/dec/10/toffee-crisp-blue-riband-nestle-chocolate-recipe

Sad news. 'Besides cooking, [Skye] Gyngell was a prolific writer, serving as a food editor for Vogue until 2003...also published four cookbooks, two of which (2006’s A Year In My Kitchen and 2010’s How I Cook) were award winners.' https://www.standard.co.uk/going-out/restaurants/skye-gyngell-spring-hackfield-place-dead-b1259375.html #foodstudies #chefs

'...43 years since it was first published and into a general political climate not so different from the 80s in which it was conceived, Entertaining has just been rereleased. It is a new printing for a new generation of culinary fantasists.' https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/21/goblets-of-borscht-turkey-shaped-madeleines-martha-stewart-inspiration #cookerybooks #foodhistory

I'm a tremendous fan of @Duralex products and I'm overjoyed by this news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/french-people-want-to-save-us-help-pours-glassmaker-duralex #crowdfunding #homewares #glassworks