Mrs Beeton

Love it or loathe it – the umami flavour of anchovy

3 August 2024 9:00 am

The anchovy is everywhere now, lacing salads, pizzas and appetizers. But in the past it was often denigrated in the West as bitter, putrid and ‘a worthless little fish’

You are what you don’t eat

16 March 2024 9:00 am

In the past, the ability to preserve food depended largely on people’s means, making Eleanor Barnett’s history of food waste also a history of changing attitudes to poverty

A well-laden supper table, according to Mrs Beeton, set for 16, with an exotic central floral arrangement (1861)

Famous female cooks, a juicy salmon recipe from 1664 — and the only interesting thing about Mrs Beeton

7 December 2013 9:00 am

In Cooking People  Sophia Waugh describes, with dash and wit, the personalities of five important women cookery writers: two Hannahs…