The hidden history behind the meanings of food related words, terms and phrases.

What follows was inspired by the video “ Vegetables don’t exist ” on the “Words Unravelled!” YouTube channel hosted by Rob Watts from “...

I wonder how many of us take the humble tin can for granted? Have you ever stopped to think of the origins of this omnipresent object as...

If in Split, Croatia then definitely dine at Villa Spiza. Tastes Of History ate there several times and it was fantastic.

Found on the website Twinkl, “ Ten short facts about the Romans ” was posted on December 8th, 2020 by unknown author possibly based in...

After several years of wishing we could be involved a chance encounter while “pirating” in Scarborough has led to Tastes Of History’s...

Recently the BBC broadcast an episode of “Rick Stein’s Food Stories” that stated the origin of fish and chips lay with the Portuguese who...

For some time we, at Tastes Of History, believed the hare was a native species in Britain belonging to the genus Lepus [1]. A recent post...

While working in one of our favourite schools, the book “ Roman Adventure ” (pictured right ) was discovered and was instantly...

As the New Year slowly unfolds, we look back to the festive season and the recipe for a mince pie that rather fortuitously was published...

We will be ‘ Sailing the Pirate Round ’ once again and as before we will be visiting several English Heritage sites across Britain and...

The diet of a Roman soldier consisted of wheat, rations of smoked bacon or fresh meat (when available, usually pork), vegetables,...

Chicken à la Marengo is a French dish, similar to chicken à la Provençale, that consists of a chicken sautéed in oil with garlic and...

The longevity of ancient Egyptian society, some 3,500 years, was largely because they had the good fortune to live in a sunny land,...

Grog is a term used for a variety of alcoholic beverages. In naval parlance, the word originally referred to rum diluted with water to...

This year sees Tastes Of History portraying reputable innkeepers "famed" for our "good food at most reasonable prices". Of course, we...

Birds have long been revered, feared and assumed to be capable of predicting weather, marriage partners, disaster and death. In ancient...

For the early May bank holiday weekend we jumped back 80 years to wartime Britain where Audley End House once again became a school for...

At just under 2 kg, a single Ostrich egg weighs about the same as a whole chicken and remarkably is the equivalent of 24 normal-sized...

The BBC’s Bargain Hunt has struck again. On this occasion the claim was made that Cheshire cheese was made by the Romans. That was news...