Mark Dawson

Next year's Leeds Food History Symposium will be held on Saturday 26 April 2025 at Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York. The subject is Food & Literature. I'll post further details including how to purchase tickets in the new year.

I pay an extra 60p whenever I borrow a book from our library because I'm forever late returning them 😁🤦

The essential ingredient for Welsh rarebit (and much else) within 20 miles of Sheffield. I believe some folk use Worcestershire sauce. Are there any other alternatives?

I think a lot of them were, but quirks of fate that meant the Willoughby records survived. It's largely down to Cassandra Willoughby. She wrote a history of the family in the early 1700s and focused on personal and social details. No doubt she helped preserve these records.

Francis Willoughby's brewer, Thomas Belper, was rewarded for brewing a 'wassel bolle' Xmas 1572 at Wollaton, Notts

Hope you haven't got seats near the front of the stand 🌧️