Award-winning* author, podcaster & cook of British food from the past.
*Guild Food Writers Awards: 2023 Best First Book (A Dark History of Sugar); 2024 Best Food Book (Before Mrs Beeton)
Dr Neil Buttery
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New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.
How can it be a week since the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2026!?
As usual, I forgot to take pics...this is my only one. It was such a fab night hosted by Layla Kazim.
It was also great to hang out with everyone.
I was, it's fair to say, a little delicate the next morning.
Steven Sheil
ICYMI: There was a veg spesh on @aisforapplepod.bsky.social in which I champion the cabbage, @mrssbilton.bsky.social expresses her beef with celery & @alessandrapino.bsky.social delves into the anthropomorphic qualities of cauliflower
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Food History Treasures of the @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social with Peter Ross.
Today we are talking about the food history collections at the Guildhall Library.
The British Food History Podcast is available on all podcast apps.
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We talk about how it got some of its collections, the ridiculous feast put on for James I by the Merchant Tailors, the importance of the author’s voice when it comes to writing cookery books, & Elizabeth David’s Fanny Cradock avoidance techniques, amongst many other things.
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Our former Principal Librarian Peter Ross featured on Neil's excellect British Food History podcast talking about Guildhall Library's extensive food history collections.
Dr Neil Buttery
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This one is perfect. Huzzah! Will share the recipe very soon!
Dr Neil Buttery
Eels are critically endangered at this point. But there used to be huge numbers of them in the waters. How many?
In 1779, Thomas Carnan wrote that there was a river in Tweedale where so many eels came downstream every August that they "overthrow the people who go to catch them.
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Jamie Schler
Podcast Episode · The British Food History Podcast · 7 June · 42min
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New podcast episode alert!
Food History Treasures of the @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social with Peter Ross.
Today we are talking about the food history collections at the Guildhall Library.
The British Food History Podcast is available on all podcast apps.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Podcast Episode · The British Food History Podcast · 7 June · 42min
