Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: An historical note

If this happens to look a bit familiar, it's because it is. This is a reincarnation of a site I hostessed with friends from around the world, when I lived on the other side of the planet; it looked like this:

I hope this site can live up to my predecessor! Sadly but also happily, my former fellow writers are busy with their own lives; one prefers to write in her native Japanese; etc., so I'll be on my own, except that I'll be linking when I can with some of those wonderful linky parties of cooks all over our globe.

A new emphasis for this new site will hopefully be retro/heritage/historical cooking, which is a new interest of mine...but so new we'll have to see how that works out!

You'll find old and new ideas on this site...

I love playing with both food and history and am trying to combine these loves here and in various projects. My most recently published was a fun 3-volume set, which you can get free below, which speaks much of cuisine in a little known part of the world from earliest times to 700 CE....Speaking of old, this is a reincarnation of three old blogs, one shared with friends all over the world and called something like Our Favorite Food This Week, and then one called That Was Delicious that started my toying with retro food ideas, and then A History Writer in the Kitchen where I explored history more....I have kept many posts from those blogs, including many recipes I thought you might like.

Enjoy!