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16th-century ‘pamflyt compiled of cheese’ offers a comprehensive survey of British varieties – and their dubious medical benefits

The baroque composer was passionate about food and music, as celebrated at the refurbished Handel & Hendrix in London museum reopening this month

Food historian who wrote Food and Drink in Britain and took care of rare early recipe books at the University of Leeds library

IT is by far and away one of Scotland’s global icons, tucked into merrily at this time of year as Robert Burns is celebrated all over the world,…

The Virginia Company of London, known for establishing Jamestown, packed the beehives into a three-ship fleet that arrived in April 1622.

Clapcake Clapcake, clapbread, or havercake from Cumbria, northern England, and clap scones from Scotland, resemble the thin crispbread we usually associate only with Scandinavia. “The Diary of Celia Fiennes” from 1698 tells us how these clapcakes were made in Cumbria: They mix their flour with water, so soft as to rowle it in their hands into a ball, and then they have a board made round and something hollow in the middle riseing by degrees all round to the Edge a little higher, but so litt...