Category: Food Culture & History

Famine Food

By Lucy Madden. It’s difficult to imagine, in this world of choices, a subsistence diet based on one foodstuff.  We have the privilege, although some might argue with the use…

Caraway Seeds in Abundance

By Marion Maxwell. They have been found by archaeologists at the bottom of  Swiss lakes and in Egyptian tombs. In Germany they were  placed under the beds of  restless children…