Darn byr ar gyfer papur bro Dyffryn Nantlle yw hwn, a dyma’i osod yma hefyd er diddordeb pawb sydd mewn rhannau eraill o’r wlad. Hyfrydwch oedd derbyn gwahoddiad i gyfrannu i ddigwyddiad yn Yr Orsaf, Dyffryn Nantlle fel rhan o raglen ‘GwyrddNi’ i drafod thema ‘Yr Iaith yn y Tir’. Noswaith yng nghwmni stafell lawn […]
Author Archives: CarwynLlwyd
Unwild Wales – this settled country
‘Unwild Wales’ was my original, slightly provocative title to ‘Tir’ (which comes out now in six short weeks!) It was a deliberate provocation though and an allusion to current hot debates on land use and wildlife in Wales.
Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape (extract)
On the one hand, this beautiful country of Wales – Cymru – has a landscape as intimately known, cherished and stewarded as any in the Western world, with a unique, native culture that is umbilically connected to the land…
Why there are no Welsh restaurants
There is nothing approaching a Welsh restaurant in Wales today; and, with exceptions, there are very few Welsh dishes on menus….
Towards a history of food in Wales (II)
What would a food history of Wales contain in full? Social history, landscape history, farming history and so much more…
Towards a history of food in Wales
The history of Welsh food as such has not yet been written, as I started outlining in my last piece. I am now working on a new book (on which more another time) and in any case am not an academic historian; but I hope that the work of writing such a history is taken […]
Why is there no history of Welsh food?
Why is there no history of Welsh food? One of the things that the book set out to do was to present several of the key strands in Welsh food history to a broad audience, and the thing that surprised me most as I started researching in 2018 was…
Pam ysgrifennu’r llyfr yn Saesneg?
…fy mod wedi ceisio ysgrifennu llyfr Cymraeg yn Saesneg. Ydw i’n gallu amddiffyn honiad o’r fath? A oes angen ei amddiffyn? Sut beth fyddai llyfr Cymraeg yn Saesneg, tapini?