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 […]
Category Archives: Welsh Food Stories
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?
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…
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…
A Small Farm Future: a Welsh perspective
Wales stands in a position where it could opt to set a course for a desirable small farm future