The blog does food ……. an appeal to the World

 The blog has always done food, ranging from the history of food, to foods across the world and some of our own popular, less popular and downright strange dishes.*

And of course, when ever you look at the history of the subject you turn up so much more, like the two different words for pork, depending on whether you were a Norman conqueror or a defeated English peasant.

Along the way there is the story of adulterated foods, the ongoing history of legislation to protect the quality of what is eaten, and those moments like rationing which throw up a whole heap of things to explore.

While in the 21st century we continue to debate the links between, food, commercialism, and the health of the nation.

But the blog has also just celebrated good food, through the cooking of Italy and in particular the south of the country, to the fads and fashions of what we eat.

Occasionally the stories come from other parts of the world, and here comes the new series, which will last as long as there are people willing to share their dishes and is pretty much an appeal for people to offer up a recipe, with a picture, and a history.  

The history can be a very personal one, or draw on the bigger picture including the time and events surrounding its first use.

So there is the obvious “Scouse”, and haggis and lots more.

I have been sneaky and left a challenge with friends, but that is only to start the ball rolling.

Now I am a vegetarian, but as I never push my own views on the blog, there is no bar to what will be allowed.

So that is it.  You can sign up by leaving a comment here on the blog, or contacting me via Facebook or twitter.  

If you leave your email address, it will be used but never published.  

And all pictures must be your own or are copyright free.

Which just leaves one last addition to the challenge, which you do not have to include, and that is a wine/beer or non alcholic story.

Mine will always be drinking retsina from jam jars, in a small taverna at the bottom of the Acropolis on warm summer's evening.  Long after the food was forgotten that retsina, the jam jars, and the friends I was with has stuck with me.

As has a magical night on the island of Kefalonia , eating, drinking and watching the sun set over the sea with Tina.

Location; the kitchen and the World

Pictures, Risotto alla pescatora, and Easter cakes, 2019, cooked by Rosa, favourites from the USA from Meta Givern’s Modern Encyclopaedia of Cooking, 1948, Chicago, a few cook books from the kitchen, all of which  have themselves past into history, and a night in Kefalonia, 2019, Balzano

*Food, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search?q=food