British viewers introduced to the rich Forsyte family when a drama adaptation of author John Galsworthy's 'The Forsyte Saga' debuted on BBC TV #onthisday (5 Oct 1969) learned that their guests were always served a saddle of mutton as its qualities reflected people “of a certain position” #foodsky 🍜

It’s Korvapuustipäivä in Finland and Kanelsbullens Dag in Sweden, which is to say Cinnamon Bun Day! I happen to have a recipe for Swedish Cinnamon Buns, so of course it has to be #RecipeOfTheDay www.nigella.com/recipes/swed...

Swedish Cinnamon Buns

Swedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa...

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Passengers leaving Paris on the inaugural run of the historic Orient Express #onthisday (4 Oct 1883) could sit down to a menu featuring oysters, turbot with green sauce, chicken chausseur, a chaud-froid of game (meat with a cooled jellied coating), chocolate pudding and petit fours #foodsky 🍜

Over a breakfast of broiled fish, roast beef with mushrooms, rhubarb & gooseberry tart and Cheshire cheese at his private club, adventurer Phileas Fogg wagers #onthisday (2 Oct 1872) that he can travel around the world in 80 days, according to the classic novel by author Jules Verne #foodsky 🍜🧵

Join with us and The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social in celebrating vegetarian recipes which appeared in the 19th century blockbuster, 'Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management', published #onthisday (1 Oct 1861) #WorldVegetarianDay #foodsky 🍜 merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Mrs Beeton’s vegetarian feasts: vegetarian recipes from 19th century England

Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management was a staple of the Victorian kitchen. We tried our hand at recreating several of her recipes.

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A revered symbol of fertility and good fortune in the southwest Asian country of Armenia, which observes its Independence #onthisday (21 Sep), the pomegranate was also meaningful to US artist George Henry Hall (born 21 Sep 1825) during a year in Italy as shown by 'A Pomegranate, Siena' 👇 #foodsky 🍜

For those who have little idea of how to make a Waldorf salad - like hapless hotel owner Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) in the first episode of the British classic comedy Fawlty Towers shown #onthisday (19 Sept 1975) - there's some help in the comments 🙂 #foodsky 🍜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEeF...

Fawlty Towers: I want a Waldorf salad!

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At one time in the US, the Mint Julep cocktail - bourbon, sugar, mint - was used in the horse-racing industry to ease workers' aches and pains. In the Bond movie 'Goldfinger' which premiered #onthisday (17 Sept 1964), the eponymous villain offers it to Bond as a welcome to his horse ranch #foodsky 🍜

It's a cuisine known for its colour and boldness so you would expect Mexico Independence Day #onthisday (Sept 16) to be celebrated in the red, white and green of its flag with chiles en nogada - peppers stuffed with spicy minced pork and covered with walnut sauce, parsley and pomegranates #foodsky 🍜

The first woman to win World's Best Pastry Chef, Jessica Préalpato (born #onthisday 15 Sept 1986) is all kinds of remarkable - now pastry chef at the Louvre in Paris, she also revolutionised the English afternoon tea tradition with 'naturalité pastry' using fruits instead of refined sugar #foodsky 🍜

When you break bread, you wouldn't expect to see it threaded together again. But the reassembly of elements using red string was a hallmark of American painter and performance artist David Wojnarowicz (born #onthisday 14 Sept 1954) to suggest seams and irreconcilable breaks in culture #foodsky 🍜

If you want to talk about a country's real spirit, then in the case of southeastern European country North Macedonia - which celebrates its independence day #onthisday (8 Sept) - you'd have to talk about rakija, a traditional fruit brandy made most commonly from plums, grapes, and pears #foodsky 🍜

Interesting experiment - for an individual. But if increasingly rough seas are a real threat to outside supplies getting through, there'd be some competition for the resources with a 20,000+ population 🙂 #foodsky 🍜 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Forget the Mediterranean diet, I'm eating nothing but food from Shetland for a month

Dr Alex Armitage is eating only food grown, reared or caught in Shetland during September.

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Apple butter is a non-dairy, jam-like spread achieved by slowly stewing apples, sugar and spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. Seasonal to autumn, the traditional nature of its production is idealised by US folk artist Grandma Moses (born #onthisday 7 Sept 1860) in 'Apple Butter Making' #foodsky 🍜

A seductive dish of prawns with ratatouille, marinated egg yolk, pea cream and zucchini flowers - inspired by the cuisine of Milan chef Carlo Gracco - opens up more than gustatory passion between diner and chef in the movie 'I Am Love', which premiered in Italy #onthisday (5 Sept 2009) #foodsky 🍜

A street food classic made its bow #onthisday (4 Sept 1949) when, depending on the reference, Berlin sausage stall holder Herta Heuwer either ran out of mustard or just experimented during a lull. At any rate, it resulted in her tangy sauce invention that has made currywurst a global hit #foodsky 🍜

If you're contemplating afternoon tea, raise a cup to English artistocrat Anna Russell, the 7th Duchess of Bedford (born #onthisday 3 Sept 1783) who is said by many to have created and developed the social ritual of tea and light bites to satisfy the hunger void between lunch and dinner #foodsky 🍜🧵

The national dish of Vietnam - which celebrates its National Day #onthisday (2 September) - is so iconic that it's also been assigned its own day in December. Pho is a slow-cooked spicy broth supplemented with noodles, meat and toppings such as fresh herbs, bean sprouts, lime and chili #foodsky 🍜

It might have offended feeders of park wildlife at the time (as indeed it might today) but diners at the Hotel Roanoke in Virginia, USA, were offered the menu choice of fricassee of squirrels #onthisday (1 Sept 1899). The grey variety remains fair 'game' under strict rules about capture #foodsky 🍜

On #WorldPhotographyDay savour the World Food Photography Awards website featuring amazing focuses in wide-ranging categories including 'Food at the Table' winner Jo Kearney's 'A Woman Eats in the Canteen of the Soviet-era Sanatorium' #foodsky 🍜 www.worldfoodphotographyawards.com/finalists-ga...

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Associated more as a leftovers dish for servants while the gentry dined on the prime cuts of venison, humble pie - named after the ‘umbles’ (offal) of deer used - was on the menu for King James I himself #onthisday (18 August 1617) when he was the guest of a baronet in Lancashire, England #foodsky 🍜

Meaningful meals mark India's Independence Day #onthisday (15 August) according to @timesofindianews.bsky.social such as Poori Bhaji - deep-fried Poori (unleavened bread) with Aloo ki Sabji (potato and tomato curry) - "shared among fighters becoming a symbol of sustenance and resistance" #foodsky 🍜👇

A huge 1300-kilo cake symbolises one of Italy's most historic celebrations #onthisday (14 Aug). La Torta dei Fieschi in Lavagna, Genoa, replicates the 13th century marriage of the Count of Lavagna to a noblewoman when portions of the multi-layered treat were distributed free to all there #foodsky 🍜

Food-based anxiety lay at the heart of films by iconic English director Alfred Hitchcock (born #onthisday 13 August 1899) according to @faroutmagazine.co.uk (see comments) "In Notorious, a nice cup of coffee becomes a murder weapon; In Psycho, a simple sandwich becomes a sinister omen” #foodsky 🍜

Hawker centres - popular dining hubs of street food in southeast Asia - took star billing in the hit movie comedy Crazy Rich Asians (which premiered #onthisday 7 August 2018) when romantic lead Rachel was initiated into such treats as satay, chili crab, stir-fried noodles and laksa curry #foodsky 🍜

Back in pre-1752 Julian Calendar days, Oyster Day would be celebrated in London #onthisday (5 August) as it was considered the start of the season for eating the shellfish - indeed, Londoners believed that if you ate oysters on this day you would not want for money all year round #foodsky 🍜

As devotees of the oatcake (based as we are in Scotland), we were dismayed to learn that #onthisday (20 July 1818) holidaying English Romantic poet John Keats failed to see the appeal of the traditional oatmeal crackers, writing to his brother Thomas: “I cannot manage the cursed oatcake” #foodsky 🍜

Where other people met and ate fascinated French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (born #onthisday 19 July 1834) as in 'At the Cafe' 👇 For himself it's written he ate solely in his studio every day on brioche with marmalade for breakfast and for lunch on meat cutlet and hard-boiled eggs #foodsky 🍜🧵

Curry love in Great Britain became firmly established in the mid 19th century thanks to Indian-English novelist and poet, William Makepeace Thackeray (born #onthisday 18 July 1811) when the author of the classic Vanity Fair glorified the dish in Ode to Curry, published in Punch magazine #foodsky 🍜