CarwynLlwyd – Page 2 – Carwyn Graves

Of this corner of Europe…

This culinary tradition is also very much of this corner of Europe. By that I mean that, as would be true of any cuisine or food culture, none of the foodstuffs mentioned in this book are uniquely Welsh but belong to…

Welsh food; childhood memories

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…

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?