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Fascinated though sometimes alarmed by vintage cookbooks, enjoys traveling around the world and through time via the medium of food, stories & books. Loves history, stories, cheese, cocktails, photography and cats (not necessarily in that order).

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I cooked & ate a ridiculously enjoyable amount of

I cooked & ate a ridiculously enjoyable amount of garlic, tempted by my reading for my new episode. No dreaming resulted sadly, but if you’d like to try my recipe for Spaghetti al aglio e olio plus rogue anchovies with a modest 4 cloves the recipe is at link in bio: latest episode and recipe, just click jump to recipe

#podcast #foodhistory #foodfolklore #foodways #fairytales #folktales #folklore #garlic

If you want love, make it as big a love as the Duc

If you want love, make it as big a love as the Duchesses of Milan & Mantua have for each other and for garlic. If you want to hear more garlic history, tales and folklore, then listen to my newest episode; there’s even a story, if that interests you link in bio see latest episode & recipe or listen on your favourite podcast app.

#podcast #foodhistory #foodfolklore #foodways #fairytales #folktales #folklore #garlic

Some wise words (not mine) that felt right for tod

Some wise words (not mine) that felt right for today.

#fairytale #stories #quotes #people #kindness #resilience #folktale #folktales #fairytales #storyteller #storytellers #storytelling

It’s been a year! I think Neil Gaiman’s words

It’s been a year! I think Neil Gaiman’s words are perfect for the occasion so I’ll leave them with you. Thanks to all the lovely people here who have been so wonderful & supportive. I promise to update here more often when I start the new season but in the meantime I wish you all a happier and healthier new year for 2022.

Posted @withregram • @rosiesplaques We made this

Posted @withregram • @rosiesplaques We made this plaque. Each of us pressed in a different letter. It’s up in our city. We’ve made badges in packs of 5 (available singly from @bookbugsdragontales and @tomblander after the weekend) All profits to a Norwich sexual abuse charity. But most of all we want this picture to go everywhere. https://rosiesplaques.com/products/for-our-sisters

Triangles seem to be all I can manage now. His fel

Triangles seem to be all I can manage now. His feline highness is deeply suspicious of it.

Some dark and scary stories from my latest episode

Some dark and scary stories from my latest episode- perfect for the season: Darkness Amongst the Trees or A Feast of Divination

In which we discover that trees have a dark side, that they occasionally attack livestock and that they sometimes assist river spirits in sacrifice. We also learn that there can be hope in little things, that Grannies really do know everything and that divining the name of a future spouse can be trickier than you'd think.

The Seasonal foods in this episode are Colcannon, Soul Cakes and Walnuts.

The stories in this episode are Crooker, The Flight of Birds and The Elder Tree Witch.

If you would like to find more information about any of the stories, books or research in this episode you can find them in Further Reading - link in bio to web page of the episode

You can also find out more at Hestia's Kitchen which has all past episodes and the connected recipes on the blog. - link in bio. If you'd like to get in touch about the podcast you can also find me on Twitter @FairyTalesFood.

#scarystories #halloweenstories #trees #eldertree #witches #folktales #fairytales #folklore #derbyshire

Some dark and scary stories from my latest episode

Some dark and scary stories from my latest episode- perfect for the season: Darkness Amongst the Trees or A Feast of Divination

In which we discover that trees have a dark side, that they occasionally attack livestock and that they sometimes assist river spirits in sacrifice. We also learn that there can be hope in little things, that Grannies really do know everything and that divining the name of a future spouse can be trickier than you'd think.

The Seasonal foods in this episode are Colcannon, Soul Cakes and Walnuts.

The stories in this episode are Crooker, The Flight of Birds and The Elder Tree Witch.

If you would like to find more information about any of the stories, books or research in this episode you can find them in Further Reading - link in bio to web page of the episode

You can also find out more at Hestia's Kitchen which has all past episodes and the connected recipes on the blog. - link in bio. If you'd like to get in touch about the podcast you can also find me on Twitter @FairyTalesFood.

#scarystories #halloweenstories #trees #eldertree #witches #folktales #fairytales #folklore #derbyshire

I love a Rowan tree, not only are they gorgeous to

I love a Rowan tree, not only are they gorgeous to look at but the berries were once considered the food of the gods. It’s also thought that they can protect a home against lightning and the devil as well as protecting livestock from being ‘overlooked’

This one is absolutely full of berries and that suggests, according to the old wives’ tale, that we are in for a hard winter.

#rowantree #rowanberries #folklore #plantlore

We want to hear your ghost stories! The Folklore

We want to hear your ghost stories!

The Folklore Library & Archive and The Folklore Network are running a major new folklore collecting project to record hauntings and ghostlore from around the world, and we would love you to take part. It's easy to do, and important for conserving our folklore and history.

It's quick and easy, and collects valuable material for the future.

Step 1: Record yourself or a friend speaking about a haunted location, experience you have had, or other piece of ghostly folklore

Step 2: Email the recording to folklorelibrary@gmail.com

Step 3: We will get back to you

You can record on mobile phone, voice recorder, Zoom call (with yourself or others), Skype or any other way you know.

Please feel free to forward this post or the information in it to anyone and everyone you think will be interested, to help us collect an archive of stories for future generations.

#folklore #folklorecollecting #ghoststories #ghostlore #ghosts #ghoststory #hauntings #oralhistory #ghostboast

It’s bonus episode day! In this episode I talk w

It’s bonus episode day! In this episode I talk with @museumofkitchenalia about her new book A Dark History of Chocolate.

Firstly, may I say that this is a fantastic book. I constantly alternated between being ashamed of ever eating chocolate to being seduced by the idea of this rich, darkly magical substance. I was left at the end not sure whether I could ever look a chocolate digestive in the face again and equally wanting to rush off and make intensely dark chocolate truffles with smoky whisky & sea salt and indulge in every one!

I enjoyed doing this interview so much and we explored the dark side of ‘the food of the gods’ including it’s involvement in folk tales, medicine, folklore, murder plots & witchcraft.

I also managed to keep our detour into cheese as short as possible 😊

You can hear the full interview and find the links to the book and more information about Emma and her work at the link in bio.

🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫

#chocolate #adarkhistoryofchocolate #magic #foodinfolklore
#foodhistory #foodhistorian #foodways

Contentment = listening to wonderful stories from

Contentment = listening to wonderful stories from fabulous tellers, cat snuggles and embroidery.

#storytelling #stories #embroidery #cats #storytellers

We’re back and It’s the birthday episode! In w

We’re back and It’s the birthday episode! In which we discover the fascinating truth of how 1001 Nights, brave yet mischievous Sicilian maidens, the patriachy, apple dumpling and Lucrezia Borgia are all connected. This episode also contains revelations about the startling effects of pear varyenky and the surprising divination abilities of pel'meni.

The stories in this episode are The 13 Bandits, adapted from The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrè - edited and translated by Joseph Russo and Jack Zipes and The Apple Dumpling, adapted from The Story-teller by Maud Lindsay.

The recipe in today's episode is Varyenky with Two Fillings.

You can also find out more at Hestia's Kitchen which has all past episodes and the connected recipes on the blog. If you'd like to get in touch about the podcast you can find me on Twitter at @FairyTalesFood.

#storytelling #folklore #fairytales

It’s a podcast birthday announcement! Folklore,

It’s a podcast birthday announcement! Folklore, Food & Fairytales is nearly 1 and I have bonus episodes coming up (totally serendipitous that it worked out this way but I’m taking it as a positive sign 😊)

Listen to find out all about the storytelling interview series at the link in bio with a little tease for the next episode.

#storytelling #fairytales #podcastbirthday

A slightly different episode with a story and inte

A slightly different episode with a story and interview about @agothiccookbook instead of our normal format.

The interview is with @sasacharlie from A Gothic Cookbook. We chatted at length about this fantastic book as well as taking a trip down a few rabbit holes and I hope you enjoy it

Come for the delicious Chicken Paprikash in Dracula & the Chocolate Mousse in Rosemary’s Baby. Stay for the darker side of food, how to tell scary stories and food & crime as inspired by a @bakingfiction talk.

The interview begins at 11:28 (episode link in bio) unless you’d like to find out how ‘Palermo sugar, sweet almonds, 4-6 bottles of scented water, a little musk & amber, 40 pearls, 2 sapphires, a few garnets & rubies, & gold thread became a man’ then enjoy from the start

The episode story is Pintosmalto from The Pentamerone or Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile as translated by John Edward Taylor

#storytelling #fairytales #pentamerone #agothiccookbook #foodstories #foodinliterature #recipes

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