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Rediscover Tasty Food Traditions!
Rediscover the joy of traditional cooking! Join us as we explore the fascinating connection between culinary creativity and time-honored food practices. Learn how our ancestors' wisdom can inform our modern diets and inspire healthier eating habits.
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Iconic Chef Julia Child’s Boston-Area Home Just Hit the Market, and Foodies Will Love the Rare Kitchen Feature https://www.diningandcooking.com/chefs/8640/ #Chef #CulinaryHistory #JuliaChild
There was a time when peasant foods like polenta, oats, potatoes, or offal weren’t trendy. Today? That polenta is served with black truffles, overnight oats cost a fortune, heirloom beans are a gourmet ingredient, and bone marrow is served on tiny pieces of toast. So how did humble peasant foods become expensive “heritage” cuisine? Let's go on a journey through poverty, migration, tradition, and a wee bit of culinary snobbery. Because the difference between peasant food and luxury food isn’t the ingredient. It’s the story behind it. And yes… I still remember eating porridge for breakfast at grandma’s. #FoodHistory #FoodCulture #CulinaryHistory #HeritageFood #FoodStories
https://foodculturebites.com/once-peasant-food/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Read a #medieval recipe for deep-fried, battered custard and you understand the deep heritage of State Fair snacks.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/27/fried-chunks-of-battered-custard/
HERDEZ celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Mexican flavors made for easy entertaining https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/32496/ #CulinaryHistory #CulinaryTraditions #flavors #HERDEZ #HERDEZFoundation #HERDEZSalsa #HispanicHeritageMonth #MexicanCooking #MexicanFood #MexicanRestaurant #MexicanRestaurants
How potato pancakes fell victim to austerity in the first World War, and how some pissed-off workers foiled a Putsch in 1920 because of things like that.
Meeting This Chef Made Anthony Bourdain’s Dreams Come True
As told to Bloody Elbow in 2014, Anthony Bourdain reflected on the moment in which he met his culinary hero. “I was practically in tears. I was totally intimidated. I never thought in a million years I would ever eat at his…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #AnthonyBourdain #culinaryhistory #francais #france #French #PaulBocuse
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2829102/meeting-this-chef-made-anthony-bourdains-dreams-come-true/
Meeting This Chef Made Anthony Bourdain’s Dreams Come True https://www.diningandcooking.com/2829102/meeting-this-chef-made-anthony-bourdains-dreams-come-true/ #AnthonyBourdain #CulinaryHistory #francais #france #French #FrenchCuisine #PaulBocuse
Meeting This Chef Made Anthony Bourdain’s Dreams Come True https://www.diningandcooking.com/chefs/8202/ #AnthonyBourdain #Chef #CulinaryHistory #PaulBocuse
So, there is a recipe for what is pretty clearly #Baumkuchen from around 1500, and I nearly missed it because it is named like a roast custard. Naming stuff is hard...
A recipe for fish in #aspic, and some thoughts on why Middle German insists on using the same words for jellies and bread sauces. Because of course it does.
🍲🎹 Ah, the age-old dilemma: do I read a #cookbook or a historical document? Enter Suzanne Ciani’s 'Buchla Cookbook'—perfect for those who enjoy their recipes with a side of analog synth history and a sprinkle of artsy jargon. 🤔📜 Who knew making music could be so... culinary? 🍽️🎶
https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/suzannes-buchla-cookbook #analogsynth #SuzanneCiani #musicandfood #culinaryhistory #HackerNews #ngated
Still more medieval and early modern recipes for filling cooked eggs back into their shells. These are called 'kroseier' and the name is not the oddest thing about them.
Vanilla starts with conquest, colonialism, and slavery. A difficult-to-grow tropical orchid became the flavor behind ice cream, custards, and countless desserts… There’s a fascinating history hiding inside every drop. #Vanilla #FoodCultureBites #FoodHistory #FoodCulture #FoodCulture #CulinaryHistory #FoodStories #DessertHistory
https://foodculturebites.com/the-story-of-vanilla/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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To follow up the recipe for roasted eggs in their shells: There are many parallels. Some are very elaborate indeed.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/15/filled-eggs-a-common-recipe/
So, you carefully open the eggs at the tip, cook the content, spice it, fill it back into the shells, stick them on a skewer and roast them. And you add something that can't really mean what it says.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/13/a-common-dish-with-interesting-wording/
Today from Solothurn S 392: How to fill a capon with its own innards (and plenty of spices). Because sometimes medieval cooking is that cliché.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/12/roast-capon-the-complicated-way/
Marinading roasts in wine and spices looks like it has a long tradition. I think the Forme of Cury does it best, because garlic.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/11/wine-marinated-pork-roast/
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Who decided that? For centuries, people skipped it or delayed it. How and when did breakfast become something we were told we absolutely needed?
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Who decided that? For centuries, people skipped it or delayed it. How and when did breakfast become something we were told we absolutely needed?
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Today, a recipe for fig-nut fritters with parallels in several otherwise not strongly related sources. It was clearly transmitted as text, not just as content, and geography mattered, maybe more than class.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/08/fritters-with-parallels/
Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)
https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/about/babylonian-cooking
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554622
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I tried the spinach pancake casserole recipe from Das elektrische Kochen today, and it was pretty good. More redactions to come for my revolutionary recipes.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/06/trying-the-spinach-pancake-casserole/
Two Lenten recipes, one for a fish roe cake and one for a kind of Studentenfutter, with parallels in different recipe collections that suggest a kind of synoptic South German cookbook tradition with a lost Q.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/04/some-lenten-recipes-and-their-transmission/
A crustless cheesecake from c. 1500 which the recipe claims to be Venetian. It sounds worth trying out actually.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/03/a-venetian-cheesecake/
🎣🐟 Apparently, medieval folks thought fish was the devil's snack and sugar was pure angel dust. 🚫🍬 Who knew that their culinary wisdom was basically the nutritional advice equivalent of a flat earth theory? 📜🤦♂️
https://lithub.com/fish-bad-sugar-good-and-other-medieval-ideas-about-food/ #medievalcuisine #fishmyths #sugarbeliefs #nutritionalwisdom #culinaryhistory #HackerNews #ngated
A malfunctioning smoke alarm woke me at 3 am, so it's a short recipe today: Cheese curd fritters "the Florentine way".
.https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/01/cheese-curd-fritters/
Today's recipe is for pumpkins with egg and cheese, with a side of Italian loan words in German. And of course, lagenaria, not curcubita.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/30/gourd-with-cheese-and-eggs/
How some organised Berlin tenants got an actual Nazi's real estate investment confiscated in 1979. Also, summer fruit pudding and neotraditional cuisine.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/29/my-landlord-did-what-feeding-the-revolution-xxxvii/
oday: Making raisins when the weather is not cooperative. Also, medieval German cooking sources have the weirdest names bar none. "ugesicke"
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/27/raisins-in-a-cold-climate/
Spanish roots. Filipino soul. A delicious collision.
#food #recipes #FusionFood #CulinaryHistory
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The Guide Escoffier: The Culinary Bible That Shaped Modern Cooking - Beestrot.com
https://beestrot.com/features/the-guide-escoffier-the-culinary-bible-that-shaped-modern-cooking/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FBeestrot+Best+Recipes+%E2%80%93+Easy+Cooking+%F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8D%B3
Last Updated on April 28, 2025 by Jean Louis Table of Contents Imagine walking into a professional kitchen anywhere in the world and witnessing the …
#food #guideescoffier #culinaryhistory
Imagine walking into a professional kitchen anywhere in the world and witnessing the synchronized dance of chefs...
https://beestrot.com/features/the-guide-escoffier-the-culinary-bible-that-shaped-modern-cooking/
Imagine walking into a professional kitchen anywhere in the world and witnessing the synchronized dance of chefs...
https://beestrot.com/features/the-guide-escoffier-the-culinary-bible-that-shaped-modern-cooking/
#food #GuideEscoffier #CulinaryHistory #ClassicFrenchCuisine #ChefLife #CookingBible
The Guide Escoffier: The Culin...
Imagine walking into a professional kitchen anywhere in the world and witnessing the synchronized dance of chefs...
https://beestrot.com/features/the-guide-escoffier-the-culinary-bible-that-shaped-modern-cooking/
#food #GuideEscoffier #CulinaryHistory #ClassicFrenchCuisine #ChefLife #CookingBible
The Guide Escoffier: The Culin...
A recipe for stuffing roast chicken with eggs, "the German way", but with a mystery ingredient. It couldn't really mean myrrh, could it?
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/18/a-roast-chicken-mystery/
The Solothurn S 392 recipe collection includes a dish that is basically beef and bacon in scrambled eggs. No maple syrup on top because they hadn't discovered America yet, but I guess you could have waffles.
Finally back home, and here are two sauces from c. 1500: standard green sauce, and an interesting almond-honey-mustard-verjuice kind of cocktail sauce.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/12/two-sauces-from-the-solothurn-ms/
How dinner clubs took over government and why that turned out to be a good idea. Also, fifteenth century baked apples.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/07/30/revolt-of-the-dinner-clubs-feeding-the-revolution-xxxiii/
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #cologne #medieval #eattherich
Finally another post: The battle of Hambacher Forst, and the inclusive, economical food culture of the left activist scene in Germany.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/07/28/the-village-of-forest-guardians-feeding-the-revolution-xxxii/
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #eattherich #vegetarian #vegan
A bit about pre-war and wartime pickled herring, and why it's important to not have maggots in navy rations if you want to keep your emperor.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/07/20/herring-and-kaiser-in-a-pickle-feeding-the-revolution-xxxi/
Being sick sucks, but having time for things is a comfort. The #fourteenth-century Rossauer Tischzucht explains how to eat soft-boiled eggs.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/07/19/a-fourteenth-century-poem-of-table-manners/
A piece of left-wing history: Hafenstraße. And Vietnamese cuisine in German communes around 1980, because when you said Vietnam then, people didn't think of Pho.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/07/18/houses-by-the-harbour-feeding-the-revolution-xxx/
Ah, yes, the essential collection of 5,000 ancient restaurant menus 🥖, because who wouldn't want to time travel back to when mayonnaise was considered a vegetable? 🥦 Perfect for those who need to impress their friends by knowing what the elite of 1895 dined on while they ignore that suspicious AI-generated "definitions" button. 🚫🤖
https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/ #ancientmenus #timecapsule #culinaryhistory #foodiehumor #retrodining #HackerNews #ngated
You know Thomas Jefferson. But have you heard of James Hemings, the forgotten chef? His story is one of many hidden behind the foods we love. Discover the influential forgotten chefs. #FoodHistory #BlackHistory #CulinaryHistory #FoodCulture foodculturebites.com/forgotten-ch...
You probably know Thomas Jefferson. But have you heard of James Hemings, the forgotten chef who trained in Paris? His story is just one of many hidden behind the foods we love, like Southern barbecue and Caribbean foods. Discover the forgotten chefs whose influence still shapes the way we eat today. #FoodHistory #JamesHemings #BlackHistory #CulinaryHistory #SouthernFood #FoodCulture
https://foodculturebites.com/forgotten-chefs/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How do you keep cherries fresh? In a well, actually...
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/06/05/keeping-cherries-fresh/
Rediscover Tasty Food Traditions!
Rediscover the joy of traditional cooking! Join us as we explore the fascinating connection between culinary creativity and time-honored food practices. Learn how our ancestors' wisdom can inform our modern diets and inspire healthier eating habits.
Follow @biohackingpathway for more
#RediscoverFoodTraditions #FoodTraditions #CulinaryHistory #HealthyEating #TraditionalRecipes #Foodie #Cooking #FoodCulture #EatToBeatYourDiet #RediscoverYourRoots #MindfulEating
A LOVELY, SIDELONG BOOK weaves together an exploration of the history, anthropology, and psychology of kitchen objects with candid interviews about different people’s treasured things, from Syrian vegetable corers to a tomato-shaped salt shaker. B PLUS
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In 1830, the people of Braunschweig went from humble petitions to setting fire to the duke's ballroom in seven days. And it worked. Also, really bad soup.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/05/08/checkmating-the-diamond-duke-feeding-the-revolution-xxi/
The Legendary Pease Pudding: Newcastle's Culinary Crown Jewel - This Newcastle recipe is SHOCKINGLY easy to make at home. Locals are furious! Discover the secret ingredients and steps NOW before it's banned!.
https://permuta-pro.web.app/journal/newcastle-hidden-gems-recipe
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In which I engage in some reckless speculation about feeding #bronzeage kingdom armies with bread and cheese, and why they aren't a good idea.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/04/17/a-disappearing-kingdom-feeding-the-revolution-xix/
