When students from Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, cleared invasive Himalayan blackberry from a meadow on campus, a bank of camas seeds sprouted. "The university found itself with a thriving patch of Indigenous first foods," says @Toastie. For High Country News, they write about how this discovery birthed a festival, the Linfield Camas Festival. The one-day event is devoted to the wildflower, its place in Indigenous cuisine, culture and ecosystems, and educating others about food sovereignty and more.
The post you are about to read is not a prelude to a recipe. This is not a recipe blog, and this is not a recipe blog post. This is a tale of mild obsession (mine) to find the origin of a recipe, and to correctly credit the creator.
There's a long tradition of culinary April Fools. Atlas Obscura rounds up some of the best, including the famous spaghetti tree hoax, the origin story of "Hansel and Gretel," and the bull ball beer joke that eventually became reality.
First, there was the cruffin and then, the cronut. Now, there's a new portmanteau pastry — the crookie — and it was invented in Paris, of all places. A mashup of croissants and chocolate-chip cookies, it was created by Stéphane Louvard of Boulangerie Louvard last year and went viral on TikTok last month (the bakery now sells 1,500 crookies a day, and 2,000 on Saturdays). The BBC explains more about the indulgent treat, as well as the history of the classic croissant.
was poking around at traces of some communist klezmer musicians in the NY Daily Worker issues of the late 1920s and became fascinated by all the ads for long-gone #vegetarian restaurants. #FoodHistory#CommunistHistory
If nothing else the beginning of this video's exploration of the timeline of foods introduced to ancient Egypt over thousands of years is awesome. The stuffed dates recipe is something I'm planning on trying as long run fueling instead of my current experiment with just straight up dates has worked well. #FoodHistory#food#egypt#history#running Cooking Cleopatra
I never heard of fried green tomatoes until the movie. Apparently most people hadn't. Did the movie introduce the world to some classic southern dish? Apparently not. The dish's origins appear to be from the late-19th century Northeast/Midwest. #FoodHistory#history#food The Surprising Origins of Fried Green Tomatoes
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This is a great video on what the Hoplites ate when on campaign, and by extension what general Ancient Greek eating habits/foods. This is obviously a very top level view since each city-state had their own peculiarities
Happy to see Michael Twitty show up on Tasting History to discuss a New Year's food tradition and its many origins from Africa, to the Celts, to emerging traditions of the enslaved that then permeated wider American food culture and back. Not that I need an excuse to make a rice and beans dish but I could see trying to make this for sure. If you haven't checked out Twitty's "The Cooking Gene", exploring his family's history, American history, and food history all combined, I highly recommend it. #FoodHistory#MaxMiller#TastingHistory#MichaelTwitty#BlackHistory#history#NewYear Hoppin' John for New Year's with Michael Twitty