Another Romantic Number featuring More DeQuincy along with Devon and Other Things
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Factual fiction, featuring strange birds, narcotics, romantic foodways, a quack doctor and Things: Part 2 of 3.
From the early 1770s until the end of 1809, publisher Joseph Johnson held a weekly dinner for friends, clients, and staff at his London dining room. Johnson was ahead of his time in terms of feminism and hosted a coterie of radicals, reactionaries, visionaries, authors, and polymaths.
Seasonal miscellany
Each year the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence performs a new version of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. The plot hews more, or less depending on the year, to the original but the other elements of the novella always go up for grabs.
An Occasional Miscellany from Dorset, indicating a number of things about eighteenth century foodways in the English shires.
In 1961 The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society published Dorset Dishes of the 18th Century. J. Stevens Cox edited the booklet compiled by others from manuscript sources and H.S.L. Dewar provided its eccentric introduction.
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A Romantic Number featuring Discussion of Dinner, Derrida and other Things
A Number of Infelicities featuring Oysters and the Apocalypse, along with Thanksgiving from Our Archive
- A consideration of Charlotte Du Cann, featuring fashion, fine art, food, sex and Dark Mountain.
- Unsung icon: Elisabeth Ayrton and English mores within and beyond the kitchen.
- An Appreciation of Plimoth Plantation and James Deetz
- Thanksgiving, Italian-American Style
- A new Note From the Edge (of the Forest of Dean)
- Talking Turkey
A Number of Infelicities featuring Beef, Beans, Oysters and the Apocalypse
- A consideration of Charlotte Du Cann, featuring fashion, fine art, food, sex and Dark Mountain.
- Occasional Miscellany: The lost soups of Belfast.
- Unsung icon: Elisabeth Ayrton and English mores within and beyond the kitchen.
A Number of Noteworthy Women
- Occasional miscellany: Tomato soup cake.
- A rural childhood in interwar Oxfordshire: An Appreciation of Mollie Harris and A Kind of Magic
- Unsung icon: Elisabeth Ayrton and English mores within and beyond the kitchen.
- An instructive ode to clarified milk punch from Christian Isobel Johnstone.
A Number of Miscellanies
- Occasional miscellany, or, Never buy a dead lobster: The strange enough life and kitchen of Daisy Breaux, along with notes on Oliver Herbert, a pair of midcentury originals.
- A Piscine Miscellany
- Jamaican Miscellany, along with a good recipe for shrimp.
- Poetic miscellany
A Number of Historical Figures, featuring Bostonian Foodways
A Number of Anomalies
- An Appreciation of inconsistency
- Special bonus double entendre miscellany: It’s a crock, not a wheel.
A Non-English Number (or Maybe Not)
- An Appreciation of Hugh Acheson
- An alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous from Robert Roberts.
- Double bonus occasional miscellany: The cult of orange, Fly Girls and a Smart Aleck.
- A photoessay for a time of plagues: Fons Americanus.
A Number of London Clubs along with A Gentleman Farmer
- A note on London clubland past and present.
- The duke’s (or devil’s) spawn: Beef Wellington and its twentieth century mutations
- Cooking with Worcestershire, featuring an Appreciation of Marcel Boulestin.
Our 10th Anniversary Number, featuring Pie & Prejudice
- Festive miscellany: Robin McDouall on the secular and profane pleasures and pitfalls of Christmas.
- A new dawn? The New York Times begins to recognize British foodways while its reporters engage in the timeless art of culinary innovation.
- Arawak, African and English settlers on Barbados: The origins of Bajan food.
- Food at sea in the age of fighting sail
A Number of Drinks for Summer
- A note on the natures and welcome revival of punch.
- On the mystery of English milk punch.
- Ambrose Heath and olive oil during wartime lead us to question some conventional wisdom concerning the insularity of the island kitchen.
A Southern Number featuring Mobilian Madness
- Confusion now has made her masterpiece: Eugene Walter, his cult of Mobilian chaos and some descriptions of southern foodways.
- An Appreciation of Laurie Colwin.
A Winter Number Featuring Questions of Authenticity
A Number of 18th Century Notions
Our Second Irish Number
- A tale of two, Irish, cities.
- In search of the elusive but resilient Snaffles mousse with an Appreciation of Lady Mollie Cusack Smith.
- Complexity, contradiction and horse trading: An Irish journey both historical and familial.
A Number of British Foods in America
A Number of Inconsistencies
- A note on spruce beer.
- Occasional miscellany: A Cookbook for Booksellers.
- Sign of the times.
- Cooking with Worcestershire, featuring an Appreciation of Marcel Boulestin.
A Number of Cook Books, featuring The Cook Book
- Sign of the times.
- A popular dressing for salad from the early nineteenth century, rendered in verse by Sydney Smith and cited by Jane Grigson.
A Number of Bars & Beers, Some of Them Irish
- Flann O’Brien hits it out: “Workman’s Friend” revisited.
- More than the dude abides, at least in Dublin if no longer in Bolton across the Irish Sea, being a meditation on Neary’s and Flann O’Brien, with a digression on the first Bloomsday.
Another Northern Number, in Which We Return to Tourtière, and featuring Insular Foodways
- Island life: A note on the traditional foodways of Shetland and Orkney.
- A note on some simple puddings even by the standards of Shetland, including some simple recipes
A Number of Revivals & Reinventions,
featuring Oxtail and Treacle
- In (admittedly predictable) praise of public houses, their food and their habitués.
- Occasional Miscellany: Strange bedfellows and Scottish tradition in an unexpected guise.
A Number of Eccentrics & Eccentricities featuring Hybrids
- Letting Jules Verne down: Round the World in Eighty Dishes and its redemptive descendant.
- All that’s old is new again yet again: An Appreciation of Grace Firth, a twentieth century practitioner of the artisanal revival.
A Summer Number of Sandwiches and Soup,
featuring Enquiries into Origin
- In defense of John Montagu, creator of the sandwich and so much more.
- A note about the superiority of the English sandwich, featuring recipes along with praise for The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea, along with other attractions, one of them less savory.
- Occasional miscellany: All that’s old is new again.
A Northern Number
- It happened in Vermont: An unlikely time and place of publication.
- Found in California via Surrey, the American south and even New England, and a note on Row 34 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A Wintry Number featuring Cambridge
- Shameless plug; buy Petits Propos Culinaires 104.
- A note on Cambridge sausages.
- A note about English spiced beef and the mystery of its American origins.
- An Appreciation of Richard Bradley and , in an unconventional way, of ketchup.
Our Fifth Anniversary Number, Featuring Figures Past and Future, and Ketchup
- Uses and abuses of history, philosophy and cookery: A case study of Hannah Woolley.
- An Appreciation of Richard Bradley and , in an unconventional way, of ketchup.
- An appreciation of Vincent Price and his last film.
A Number of Bloomsbury Fancies -
Culinary, Erotic & Otherwise
A Sort of Archeological Number
- The Rescue Archaeologists: Florence White, Helen Edden, Raymond Postgate and the salvation of British foodways, featuring an excursion to the lost prewar world of Sweden.
- Our Rural Correspondent sails into history aboard the Empress of Canada.
Our First Scottish Number
- A culinary imponderable: The Scottish aversion to pork, featuring a vivisection of ‘The Riddle of the Scottish Pig’ by Eric Ross.
- A note on the origin of Scottish foodways, featuring a southward rather than easterly gaze.
- An Appreciation of Belhaven beers.
- The unexpected origin of Shepherds’ pie.
- Holiday Gift Guide: Kitchen Gear, Drinking Vessels, Food and Housewares
- Holiday Gift Guide: Clothing & Accessories
- Holiday Gift Guide: Books
A Number of Savory Pies for Fall
- Holiday Gift Guide: Kitchen Gear, Drinking Vessels, Food and Housewares
- Holiday Gift Guide: Clothing & Accessories
- Holiday Gift Guide: Books
- An Now For Something Completely Different: The British Tradition of The Savory Pie
- A note on Medley pie, embedding recipes for it.
Our First Foray Toward the Foodways of India
- Imperial ecstasies, or, the cuisine of British India.
- The multiplication of mulligatawny
- Our reluctant correspondent recounts her time in Tokyo, including her introduction to a memorable cook and her Indian recipes.
- Notes on Country Captain
An Eighteenth Century Interlude
A Winter Number featuring
More Curious Cuisine and Holiday Cheer
- More Christmas suggestions, two of them homemade: Things boozy.
- Offcuts and outliers part 2, featuring decidedly earthy issues, if in different ways and including a 1940 recipe for potted cheese.
- Our annual collection of holiday gift ideas.
- Offcuts and outliers, Part I: A sort of rant involving the decline of culinary standards with some modest suggestions for addressing the problem, including notes on offal, pie birds, Queen Victoria and hot girlie action.
A Meandering Fall Number, With Curious Questions and, Perhaps, Curious Cuisine
- An Appreciation of Plimoth Plantation and James Deetz
- Our annual collection of holiday gift ideas.
- A note of thanks to our readers with observations on our fourth anniversary.
- A Menu For an English Dinner Served by the Editor to 16 Goddesses
- An appreciation of Vincent Price and his last film.
- Offcuts and outliers, Part I: A sort of rant involving the decline of culinary standards with some modest suggestions for addressing the problem, including notes on offal, pie birds, Queen Victoria and hot girlie action.
- A pizza delivery resulting from an unlikely source prompts some consideration of things Newark--and Fluxus! featuring George Maciunas, Allan Kaprow and an online exhibition gallery.
- An Appreciation of the Pudding Cloth.
- A meditation on oysters from Nancy Diekmann, Our Traveling Correspondent.
- Another sally into the obscure, or, an inquiry into the origin of Rainwater Madeira, featuring notes on Madeira: Wine Cakes & Sauce by André Simon & Elizabeth Craig.
- No small surprise: The unexpected utility of cheap fake Madeira.
An Eclectic Summer Number featuring a Forgotten Champion and More Musings on Madeira
- Another sally into the obscure, or, an inquiry into the origin of Rainwater Madeira, featuring notes on Madeira: Wine Cakes & Sauce by André Simon & Elizabeth Craig.
- A note on the 1793 Charleston Light Dragoons’ Punch.
- An Appreciation of the Pudding Lady, embedding commentary on recent books by Maggie Andrews and Ellen Ross.
- No small surprise: The unexpected utility of cheap fake Madeira.
- Firearms and food: A bold policy proposal for right-thinking people.
- Cooking with Worcestershire, featuring an Appreciation of Marcel Boulestin.
Our First Quarterly Number, featuring
a Vanished Ireland and Worcestershire
- An Appreciation of the footnote, with an illustrative digression on Worcestershire sauce.
- Cooking with Worcestershire, featuring an Appreciation of Marcel Boulestin.
- A glass of the Irish please.
- A note on Ascendancy foodways with a digression on Irish stew and a short detour to Boston.
- A review of Edwardian Glamour Cooking (Without Tears)
- In search of the elusive but resilient Snaffles mousse with an Appreciation of Lady Mollie Cusack Smith.
A Wintry Number of Soups & Stews
- An Appreciation of the footnote, with an illustrative digression on Worcestershire sauce.
- Winter Market: The San Francisco Ferry Terminal
- The anomaly that is stew.
Our Third Holiday Number
- One of our College Correspondents eats a kebab and bonds with (some of) the local denizens of York.
- To use.
- To eat.
- Our annual holiday gift guide.
- Shops for Cookbooks
- Lost and found; the search for Ongar ham cake and other Essex foodways.
- A festive holiday Note From the Edge (of the Forest of Dean)
Our Second Preservation Number
The Philadelphia Story
- Reflections on snapper soup.
- An appreciation of Margaret Yardley Potter, or, a sexy Philadelphia Story other than the film.
- The first rhubarb recipes, involving questions about historical identity.
Sandwiches, Salads and Spitalfields
- The mysterious Florence Cowles and her thousands of sandwiches, featuring many sardines, musings on architecture and the unlikely Dafigconuchocarbutt.
- The elegant English sandwiches of Hilda Leyel.
- An Appreciation of Sir Henry Thompson.
- The Oyster Loaf:
Oystermania and A Riverine Expedition
- Oysters outside the ‘R’ months?
- Tribute to the Oyster
- The Oyster Loaf:
- On oysters: The British origin of a robust American tradition.
The Oyster Number
- On oysters: The British origin of a robust American tradition.
- An Appreciation of the oyster, on Nantucket and in New Orleans, from our Reluctant Correspondent.
- Hemingway eats oysters in Paris.
- A poem about oysters from Jonathan Swift.
Another Spring Number Featuring
the Poetry of Ronald Johnson
- An Appreciation of Ronald Johnson
- Our Reluctant Correspondent likes Jane Grigson, visits farmers’ markets and cooks sorrel soup.
A Chicago Number Featuring Pies
- The globalization of Chicago foodways, featuring the transformation of Bridgeport and an Appreciation of Art and Chelsea Jackson at Pleasant House.
- The British brewing style lands in Chicago.
Our First Irish Number
- The fall and rise of the Irish cheese.
- Workman’s Friend
- A wolf gives a gift of coddle and champions the can.
- A note on Guinness Foreign Extra.
- A note about Dublin coddle.
A Preservation Number
- A poem on potted meat.
- An Appreciation of the anchovy, featuring E. S. Dallas, other lubricious subjects and embedded recipes.
- Our Education Correspondent chronicles the return of the heritage pig.
A Number of Classics for the Holidays
- An Appreciation of the Be-Ro cookbook through eight decades and forty-one iterations.
- The wine of choice in the Age of Revolution, or, Madeira the muse and its uses, with two book reviews.
- Boxing Day
- Christmas Day
- A festive holiday Note From the Edge (of the Forest of Dean)
Our Second Thanksgiving Number
- An Appreciation of Plimoth Plantation and James Deetz
- Briny bets for the eve of Thanksgiving.
- Saveur roasts six turkeys; we weigh in with two
- The minor mystery of ‘dolphin cheese.’
A Dairy Number
- An appreciation of Vincent Price and his last film.
- Rabbits, rarebits, toasted cheese and an artifact.
- The minor mystery of ‘dolphin cheese.’
O! Canada - A Number Devoted to
North Atlantic Foodways
- A meditation on Canadian foodways
- Further thoughts on sea pie in North America provoked by the Editor’s glance through an exemplary little Canadian cookbook.
- Salt in the service of seasoning and the seasons, and a beautiful child born of need: the Atlantic fricot.
- Some thoughts from the Gaspé Peninsula on the use of herbs.
Another Caribbean Number, featuring Jamaica
- Rumbullion and killdevil, or: Rum, the spirit of the Indies.
- Outlaw elements and culinary adaptation:
- An appreciation of Richard Ligon, featuring some discussion of a new book, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War, by Matthew Parker.
- The curious case of the proliferating pepperpot and its strange excursion north --or not.
A First Caribbean Number, featuring Barbados
- Arawak, African and English settlers on Barbados: The origins of Bajan food.
- Rumbullion and killdevil, or: Rum, the spirit of the Indies.
- Planters Punch - a poem
- A note on China Chilo
Our First Nautical Number
- A note on China Chilo
- Food at sea in the age of fighting sail
- Sea pie: A saga of innovation and transformation
- A note on the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
The Hardship, War & Austerity Number, Part 2
- Portman Pudding and Snoek Piquant:
- An Appreciation of the sheep’s head, both at the table and on the page.
- A Note from the Edge (of the Forest of Dean) about austerity in Gloucestershire.
- An Appreciation of the Approval Matrix, Paula Deen & “English Peas”
The Hardship, War & Austerity Number, Part 1
- A Note from the Edge (of the Forest of Dean) about austerity in Gloucestershire.
- An Appreciation of the Approval Matrix, Paula Deen & “English Peas”
The Food of the People
- Traditional Food in Wales from our Education Correspondent
- A 1960s culinary childhood in the northeast of England
Our Customary January Supplement
Our Inaugural Holiday Number
- An English Season: A Photo Essay
- Christmas Day
- A festive holiday Note From the Edge (of the Forest of Dean)
- Boxing Day
The Thanksgiving Number
- An Appreciation of Plimoth Plantation and James Deetz
- Thanksgiving with the Editor
- Thanksgiving, Italian-American Style
- A new Note From the Edge (of the Forest of Dean)
- Talking Turkey
A First All Hallows Number
A VictoEdwardian Number
- An Appreciation of Sir Henry Thompson.
- Our American Correspondent in Egypt Meets the British in Cairo
- This Time, We Did Get Here First
The Midsummer Number
- Planters Punch - a poem
- A History of Freshwater Fishing
- A Note From The Edge (of the Forest of Dean) on Swan Lake
Britain and the American South
- Notes on Country Captain
- An Appreciation of Bill Neal
- Another Note From the Edge (of the Forest of Dean)
A Second Seasonal Number
A Seasonal Number
- The Crawfish Problem in England
- A first note from our own Curmudgeonly Raconteur
- Another Note from the Edge (of the Forest of Dean)
- An Appreciation of Agnes Jekyll
The Bristolian Number
The Elizabeth David Number
- A British Bar Boomlet in New York: The Breslin, Clerkenwell and Highlands
- Fungi Foraging
- An Appreciation of Richard Collin- the late New Orleans restaurant critic and cookbook author
The Killjoy Number
The Charcuterie Number
The Launch Number