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Welsh Food Stories: On the trail of the Welsh pie
Carwyn Graves How can you get a good hot lunch, affordably and on the go in the middle of a…
No comments.Welsh Food Stories: Welsh Food and Women
Carwyn Graves The unsung heroes of Welsh food are without any doubt, women. Wales’ most prominent chefs may well currently…
No comments.Welsh Food Stories: Should we try to feed the nation?
Carwyn Graves This fictitious discussion was recorded at a bar in Aberystwyth in June 2023, and is recounted here in…
No comments.Welsh Food Stories: Weeds of the Future
Carwyn Graves Food fads are sadly all too common. But the current regenesis of Welsh seaweed, celebrated on National Laverbread…
One comment.Review: Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn Graves
Jon Gower It’s no mean feat to write a book that has the heft of authority while at the same…
No comments.The Welsh food habits that die hard
Carwyn Graves An astonishing number of Welsh food traditions remain alive in the 2020s, despite their lack of cultural cachéand…
15 comments.Food Tales from Wales: The Land in a Piece of Sheep’s Cheese
Carwyn Graves It’s well known that sheep have fashioned the Welsh landscape for hundreds of years, but less widely appreciated…
No comments.Welsh Food Tales: Small is Beautiful?
Carwyn Graves ‘We live locally, we have a family tradition of enjoying fish and we wanted to give it a…
No comments.The story of Laverbread – the most divisive of Welsh foods
Carwyn Graves Porphyra umbilicalis, Bara lawr, the Welshman’s caviar, Laver bread. A dark green – or is it red? –…
2 comments.Food Tales from Wales: the con of Welsh Cawl
Carwyn Graves ‘Lamb cawl is considered to be the national dish of Wales and was traditionally eaten during the winter…
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