Posts by Gillian Riley
Lockdown lunches and crowded picnics
Our resident food historian on outdoor get-togethers, and why it is still the grub that ‘makes it all worthwhile’
Read MoreYellow on a plate
Our resident food historian transports us to the warm south through colour, Van Gogh and a drop of absinthe
Read MoreLemongrass
A Dutch master leads our resident food historian deeper into the world of citrus
Read MoreMore Lemons
Our resident food historian delves further into the world of balms and medicaments
Read MoreThat’s amaro
Our resident food historian on how, with a bit of love and care, you can lift up the throwaways of citrus fruit – pips, pith, peel and all – to their fresh and bitter best
Read MoreFull of beans
Our resident food historian on all manner of beans, from ‘glorious mush’ to a variety for the dead, and a very talented woman who painted them
Read MoreThe Joys of Sludge
Our resident food historian on beauty in beige, and why ordinary folks in the Middle Ages had it right with their ‘dreary but delicious’ diet
Read MoreCarry on up the Cupola
Our resident food historian explores the compelling history of a special Tuscan stew, and dispels a fanciful myth about its origins
Read MoreSome like it hot
Our resident food historian on chillies, and why it’s the flavour, not the heat, that is important
Read MoreExploding grannies and sleepy pears
Our resident food historian on Italian legends and the joys of pears with cheese
Read MoreAll the fun of the furlough
Our resident food historian takes us through the intrepid legionary’s enforced break, during which he keeps himself busy with sidelines in saffron and fish sauce
Read MoreSusanna’s Manners
Our resident food historian on 17th-century childcare, from high chairs ‘built like battleships’ to ‘fearsome’ baby walkers
Read MoreBeanz meanz…
In search of a suitable lockdown subject, our resident food historian hits upon a humble tin of black-eyed beans in her kitchen cupboard
Read MoreFeast for the eyes
Our resident food historian on Tudor banquets, Mantel, and the two Thomases
Read More‘Goodness had nothing to with it’
Our resident food historian on the rise of veganism
Read MoreGoing Ananas
Out with pine needles and in with pineapples as our resident food historian slices into the background of the tropical fruit
Read MoreSouped Up
Our resident food historian boils down the benefits of a hearty chicken broth
Read MoreWinter warmth
Our resident food historian on how to stave off the cold
Read MoreCornbread and other activities
Our resident food historian leads us on a journey through the maize
Read MorePeas and love
Our resident food historian in praise of the ‘delicious, disruptive, ubiquitous, versatile’ chickpea
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