'Feasts and Festivals'

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What's it all about?

Four years ago, I had a conversation with my friend Jenni about the traditional feasts and festivals that we have lost and no longer celebrate. I said I was interested in the food that went with them and she suggested I write a book about it. So I did and 'Cornish Feasts and Festivals' was published a few months ago.

The blog has expanded a bit since the beginning to include all sorts of national and international anniversaries and celebrations, some faith based, some pagan, some simply commemorating things and people that interest me.

Food is about so much more than eating. It’s about memory, childhood, culture and celebration. So this blog is not just about food – it’s about connections.

I don’t need much prompting to cook, but now and again I like to have reason to make a particular dish. I hope you enjoy reading the little essays as much as I do writing them. Leave a comment do!

Blessings.

Liz

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Some previous posts....

Candlemas Penzance St David's Day sorrel Allantide Daljit Nagra Easter Elizabeth David Epiphany Imbolc Lammas Mousehole Palm Sunday Plough Monday St Bridget St Helena St Lucy St Michaels St Piran cawl cennin crying the neck poppy seed roll saffron bread 29 February 7 Middagh Street. A Child's Christmas in Wales A Peep Behind the Scenes Agincourt Albania Alison Hodge publishers All Souls Day Almond and saffron kulfi Amy Johnson Andrew Marvell Anna Karenina Ascension Day Assumption traditions Atholl Brose Atwick Auden Baddeley Cake Baked Eggs. Bakwell TArt Banbury Cakes Bartholomew Fair Bastille Day Beating the Bounds Beef in beer Beltane Benjamin Britten Blackberry and apple pie Bloody Mary Blue Stocking Boat race Bodmin Riding Bombay potatoes with onions Borscht Bread Pudding Bread and Butter pudding Bridget Bishop Broccolli with crumbs Brooklyn Blackout cake Brú na Bóinne Burning the Clavie Burns Night Butter and egg sauce Cadbury Cajun cooking California Gold Rush Callington Honey Fair Caramel and Raisin ice cream Carlin Sunday Carnival. Lent Catherine of Aragon Cattern Cakes Charivari Charles II Charlotte Bronte Chaucer Childermas Christkindl Christmas pudding Collop Monday Coptic diet Cornish Christmas Customs Cornish Fair Maids Cornish Fairings Cornish Gorsedd Cornish Harvest Traditions Cornish Methodism Cornish Pasty Cornish Sardines Cornish Traditions Cornish rarebit and leek gratin. St Crispin. Cornish splits Cornish under roast Cornish wrestling Coronation Street Costa Rica Cullen skink Darwin Day Derbyshire Diamond Jubilee Diwali Doggett's Coat and Badge Dorothy Sayers Dove Cottage Drury Lane Theatre Dunand Napoleon's chef Dylan Thomas Easter chocolate cake Edinburgh Edinburgh Fog Edward Lear Elderflower cordial Ember Days Ember Tart Eostre Epigrammes of Lamb Fat Rascals Fig tart Fire of London Fistral Ale Food at the Battle of Hastings Galette du roi George Ewart Evans Gingerbread Goldsithney Charter Fair Good Friday traditions Goose Fairs Grasmere gingerbread Greek Independence Day Greek food Grounation Day Guy Fawkes Halloween Harvest moon Hazel Nuts Heava Cake Heavy Cake Helford cider Helston Furry Dance Hester Piozzi Hester Thrale Hildegarde of Bingen Hobby Horse Hocktide Hog's pudding Holi Honey Cake Honey Tart. Hull Fair In Praise of Peace' Pear and Ginger pudding International Labour Day Iona. Ital diet James Joyce Jane Grigson Jansson's Temptation Jerusalem Artichokes John Aubrey John Clare John Donne John Gower John Wesley Julian calendar Kidneys King John Kitt Hill Knights of St John Knill Ceremony. St Ives Hakes Kosheri La Sensa Lady Day Lady Godiva Lafrowda Lancashire hotpot Laurence Sterne Lebkuchen Leek soup Levens Hall Liptauer Little Urn Llywelyn ap Gruffyth Lobscouse Lord Peter Wimsey Lorne Cake MArtimnas Madron Well Mardi Gras Margeurite Patten Maria Branwell Maundy Thursday food May Day May Day Traditions Michaelmas Mischief Night Montol Morwenstow Mothering Sunday Mrs Beeton Mrs O.F. Walton Napoleon National Poetry Day Naval diet Nell Gwynn Newlyn Fish Festival Norman Douglas Nowruz Oatcakes Omelette au pain Orthodox advent Oxford Sausages Palio di Asti Pashka Passover Patience Gray Pavlova Peach suet pudding Peas Pendle witches Penzance Apple Cake Penzance Cake Penzance Ladies Book Club Pepys Persephone Pervigillum Veneris Pesach food Piedmont Piers Plowman Pocket Cornwall Pride and Prejudice Princess Gwenllian Proust's madeleine recipe Quakers Radishes Rammalation Cake Raspberry shortcake Rationing Red Hat Society Remembrance Day Renoir Reverend Stephen Hawker Riding the Stang Ripon Robin McDouall Rogation Rough Music Royal Oak Day Royal Shrovetide Football march Rushbearing Saint Endellion Samhain Sankta Lucia Sausages Scallops with polenta croutons Scandinavian tea ring Seafood pancakes Sepahrdic food traditions Seville orange curd. Let not poor Nelly starve. Shakespeare Shrove Tuesday traditions Simnel cake Sinterklass Sir Francis Drake Smahain Soul Cakes Spanish Armada St Agnes St Andrew's Day. St Andrew's Eve St Anthony St Catherine St Columba St Francis St George St Guthlac St Hilary The coldest day of the year St Ives Feast St James St Joseph St Just St Lawrence St Maddern St Michaels Mount St Patrick St Sitha St Valentine Stained Glass Cake Star Gazy Pie Stelk Stir up Sunday Summer pudding Sunday School Tea treats Sy David's Day traditions Syllabub Tavola di San Giuse Tenebrae. Thanksgiving The Blitz The Braemar Gathering The Eve of St Agnes The Gentle Art of Cookery The Green Man The Haxey Hood Game. Lincolnshire plum bread The Lenten Fast The Morrab Library The Wise Fools of Gotham Theotokos Thomas Hardy Tishpisti Titanic menus Tolstoy Tom Bawcock Trafalgar Tristram Shandy Tudor cooking Under Milk Wood Up Helly Aa Veneralia Venice Venus Verticordia Venus in the Kitchen. Viking diet Västerbottenostpaj Wagner Wakes Weeks Wassail Welshcakes Wensleydale cheese What's in the cupboard cake Whitsun Ales Wilfra William Tyndale Women's Little Christmas Wordsworth Yarg Yasnaya Polyana Yeast buns Yorkshire cheesecake Yule Yule Log Yule Mock almond and orange cake apple and cinnamon meringue apple cake apple curd tart apple pie apricots asparagus gratin bagna cauda barlauch knodel barley bread bean and artichoke salad blancmange blod-monath blueberry and lavender compote boy bishops bread roll crown brown jasmine rice brownies buche de noel calendars cheese fondue cheesecake chicken fricassee chicken marengo chicken paprika china clay chocolate coconut castles coiled baklava colcannon cold watercress sauce couscous coventry god cakes damson cheese date scones drovers pie duck confit elderberries fasting fennel salad flageolet bean and leek soup food and sex food and social class food in Jane Austen frangipane tart fried butter beans fried pouting fried whiting ginger syllabub haft mesa hake en papillotte hare myths hares and Easter harvest loaf hedgerow relish hemp flat bread higgler honeymoon tart hurling ice cream jumbles kisel labneh leap year proposals lettuce lussebulle macaroons manchet mango kulfi marinated mackerel membrillo tart menallack cheese metheglyn missa criolla mob football mushroom and almond soup myrtle in cooking nebra sky disc nettles olive oil bread orange meringue tart oysters palm heart salad with quinoa paradise slice parkin parsnip and apple soup pasta with pilchards and fennel pear and stilton tart with pistachios pear and walnut chutney pickled oranges pilchards pirozhki plum and walnut pie pomegranates potato salad pulled and grilled chicken pumpkin fritters rabbit liver relish rhubarb fool ribs rite of spring roast quail with myrtle roast swan rosemary and fennel foccaccia rosemary for remembrance saffron saffron and red pepper sauce scallops scheiterhaufen recipe sheep shearing shrikand sloes smoked bacon and beans smoked fish tart smoked tofu spaghetti alla carbonara spice spiced beef spiced cherries spiced cider spiced honey tart sprats summer solstice festivals swan upping sweet bread sweet omelette tea loaf. Tregothnan the introduction of the banana torta al testo trigging venison stew warden pears wassailing wedding cake wedding cake traditions well dressing. white chocolate wedding cake wild garlic scones wine harvest winter solstice witchcraft yoghurt ice cream ‘Nollaig na mBan’

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