Recipes

Forgotten Heroes #5 – Filippa the Flaxen

Forgotten Heroes #5 – Filippa the Flaxen

  Filippa the Flaxen, Queen of East Anglia, with hair like soft strands of warm gold, shimmering in sunlight, the colour of the muted sun, is seldom remembered these days. Once upon a time, though, her people, the Flax, were cultivated and eaten in much greater...

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Forgotten Heroes #4 – Antonov von Anchovy

Forgotten Heroes #4 – Antonov von Anchovy

Many people know the great-grandson of Antonov von Anchovy, the popular musician Bonjovy, who, despite promising to be there for the family, proved to be livin’ on a prayer, and ran from his family after being wild in the streets, hunted and wanted dead or alive. It...

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Forgotten Heroes #3 – Rudolf Rutabaga

Forgotten Heroes #3 – Rudolf Rutabaga

“Carpe rutabaga folia!” - Horace, Odes 1.11 (The cruel mocking of rutabagas by carving them into Jack O’Lanterns, practiced in Ireland and Scotland) Rutabagas, and their cousins, white, red, and purple-top turnips, are a generous-hearted, kind and forgiving root...

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Forgotten Heroes #2 – Juana the Tamale

Forgotten Heroes #2 – Juana the Tamale

Today we tell another sad tale of famous foods and vegetables left to compost. Juana was a Soladera Tamal of the Mexican Revolution, 1910 – 1920, and her Herculean strength and invincibility so frightened her enemies that they erased all memory of her – even changing...

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