These are now the childhood memories of the older generation in Wales. They all remain living traditions, even if some currently seem to be on their last legs…
Author Archives: CarwynLlwyd
List of historic Market Gardens and Nurseries in Wales
A list of historic market gardens or nurseries in Wales…
The forgotten story of Welsh market gardening
Welsh market gardening has a long history that has been much neglected. There were hundreds of acres of market gardens in all parts of Wales by the Victorian era….
Sioni Winwns
For over a hundred and eighty years, Breton and Welsh kitchens have been united by onions sold by Sioni Winwns – itinerant Breton onion sellers…
Ceirch/ Welsh Oats
Oats formed the basis of an entire food culture in Wales for thousands of years.
Surprising Welsh Foods (2)
Here’s the second part of a piece about some of the ingredients and dishes that have real tradition to them in Wales – or in some part of the country – but that are mostly or entirely forgotten here today. Most contemporary Welsh people would view these foods as alien, foreign foods, but in their […]
Surprising Welsh Foods
If Welsh food historically was wider in its range than leeks, lamb and those other tourist-pleasing dishes we tend to think of as ‘traditional Welsh foods’, what are those other foods?
Bwydydd amgen Cymru
Beth yw bwydydd anghofiedig, a gwahanol, Cymru? Dyma gyflwyno rhai ohonynt…