Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: Keeping food hot in 1922

You can gain such interesting insights from primary documents, actual old books and articles and other writing; this is a tiny series from the 1922 collection Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll (the sister-in-law of the famous Gertrude the gardener)....

This harks back to the chafing dish type I shared a bit at http://favoritefoodthisweek.blogspot.com/search/label/chafing%20dishes ....

That long metal food-warmer with spirit lamps...whereon porridge, coffee, and hot dishes can be kept palatable is a great help....[Also] insist on...a small saucepan over a spirit lamp for boiling eggs.

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!