Yorkshire food history
History
Yorkshire Parkin: The Bonfire Night Cake Older Than the Plot
A Yorkshire court record from 1728 mentions a woman accused of stealing oatmeal to make it. That's nearly a century before Yorkshire parkin became fixed to Bonfire Night at all.
Parkin is one of the...
History
Wensleydale Creamery: The Dale Where Monks Invented Yorkshire’s Cheese
French Cistercian monks brought a cheese recipe to Wensleydale in the 12th century. Nearly 900 years later, it's still made in the same dale, and the abbey that started it is a ruin nobody...
History
Pontefract Cakes: Yorkshire’s 900-Year Liquorice Secret
A small black coin, stamped with a castle, sold in nearly every corner shop in Britain for over two centuries. Almost nobody who eats one knows the town it's named after once ran 13...
Events
The Rhubarb Triangle: 5 Yorkshire Towns Behind a Secret Harvest
Nine square miles of West Yorkshire once grew 90 per cent of the world's winter rhubarb, picked by candlelight in total darkness, and almost nobody outside the trade ever saw it happen.
Everyone in Yorkshire...
Food
8 Traditional Yorkshire Foods That Have Nearly Disappeared
Before supermarkets flattened British food into sameness, Yorkshire had a diet entirely its own. Some of it is still there, if you know where to look.
Walk into any supermarket in Yorkshire today, and you...
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