Posts by Linda Stradley

:) What a great job you did in researching blanc-manger. A very interesting and educational article. Thank you for sharing it with us. I can tell it was a "labor or love" and took a great deal of time to write this...

Devil's Food Cake Also know as Red Velvet Cake, Red Devil’s Cake, Waldorf Astoria Cake, and $100 Dollar Cake. A beautiful mild chocolate flavor cake that is startlingly red. The cake is traditionally complemented with a thick white...

A California patent attorney recently shared with me his find of an previously unknown 1902 patent for an "Apparatus for Baking Biscuit Cups for Ice Cream." This patent find actually changes the existing written history of the...

I've always been a history "nut," and have collected history books of everyplace I visit through the years. I got interested in culinary history while in the process of compiling my first cookbook in 1996. My second...

I have an interesting old cookbook written by Gayelord Hauser in 1939. In this book he also gives the mineral contents of different foods. FYI: This is a hand-typed book with his autogaph. Dictionary of Foods, by Bengamin Gayelord...

This is a great Food History forum. I'm glad I finally found it. :) My passion is researching the history of different foods. I have a web site devoted to my research on this kind of history. Hopefully, my site can help answer some...