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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…
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?
9. Sbeis
Er mwyn ceisio diffinio bwyd Cymru, ystyriwn ni hanes sbeis yng Nghymr…