guy fawkes – Hackney Citizen

Guy Fawkes, garlic and and the Great Pyramids: notes on November in food history

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 30 October 2017 at 16:07

"Back then eating garlic had all the thrills of transgression and identifying with the Other': Lucas van Valckenborch's Winter (c. 1595). Image: Wikimedia Commons

In hiding from Halloween, our resident historian Gillian Riley turns her imagination to Bonfire Night and the transgressive thrills and benefits of so-called ‘Papist’ garlic