There is nothing approaching a Welsh restaurant in Wales today; and, with exceptions, there are very few Welsh dishes on menus….
Category Archives: Welsh Food Culture
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…
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…
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…
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…