FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD Part Seven – The Sixties
A guest post by Pam R The Swinging Sixties? It seems like a very long time ago now. What do I remember about food and cooking then? I raid my extensive cookery book collection...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD Part Six
Growing up in an Anglo Greek household – Guest Post from Soroptimist Mary Sue My mother always enjoyed cooking as had her own mother. At school, her favourite subjects were Domestic Science and Physical...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD Part Five
Canadian Cooking in the Forties/Fifties Guest Post by Soroptimist Norma Hundborg What’s typically Canadian? Apart from butter tarts (I’ll return to those!) I can think of just a few things I’ve never seen anywhere...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD – Part Four the War Years in the UK
1940 Royal Leamington Spa The Minutes of a meeting of the Leamington and Warwick Soroptimist Club on 14th January 1940, recorded that the Mayoress of Leamington referred to the need of a canteen for...
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD – NO FOOD Part Two
This was the first part of the 40’s decade! I had not cooked as my mother was always in charge and then I was off to the UK and a new life and a...
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD! 1940 – NO FOOD!
Some time ago I conceived the idea of writing a cook book showing how cooking and the food we eat had changed over the last century. I received many contributions from friends, and friends...
