Comfortably Hungry
Sam BiltonWelcome to the award winning comfortably hungry Substack where yesterday’s dinner is tomorrow’s history. If you’re a peckish person who is curious about the history of food and drink, then you’re in the right place.
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Lovely Food (1931)
By Ruth Lowinsky (1893-1958)
My recent chat with Jago Rackham reminded me of Lovely Food by Ruth Lowinsky. Published in 1931, it belonged to a new genre of slim, elegant cookbooks written by society hostesses like Dorothy Allhusen and Agne...
What can Conquest Man tell us about our diet in 1066?
Ahead of my discussion with and Professor Giles Gasper at the Serve It Forth Food History Festival about how the Normans changed the way we eat, I had a chat with Kevin Booth, English Heritage’s Head Curator of Collections, about what the...
Bonus Episode: Much Depends Upon Dinner
In this extra helping of the Comfortably Hungry podcast I chat to chef and author of To Entertain: Instructions for a Dinner Party about the complexities (or not) of hosting a dinner party. We chat about stuffy Victorian etiquette manuals...
Two Savouries
Scotch Woodcock (left) and Anchovies with Parmesan (right). Image: Sam Bilton
‘Dinner that ends with a savoury ends with rapture that passeth human understanding!’1
The savoury is something seldom seen on restaurant or domestic menus thes...
Bonus Episode: Consider the Anchovy
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash
In this bonus episode I plunge into the history of the anchovy - the little fish with a big flavour with food writer . We discuss how Sudi became an anchovy evangelist, explore the lives of the women (soba...
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