Patrik Johansson, the Butter Viking Not quite his grandmother’s butter
Patrik Johansson blends ancient knowledge and modern science to craft exquisite butter: hand-made, intensely flavourful and scarce.
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Midnight’s chicken: Indian food evolution Insights into new recipes and new ingredients
A dish that is today an icon of Indian food dates back only to 1947, using an ingredient that became widespread only in the 1920s
A brief history of Irish butter The world's first quality control system made it great
The Butter Museum in Cork, Ireland, features on some lists of the world’s quirky etc. food museums but not others. It ought to be on all of them. This is a seriously interesting museum for anyone who likes butter, and in my book, that means just about everyone. (I refuse …
Bog Butter
Peat diggers in Ireland and elsewhere have occasionally unearthed objects, usually made of wood, that contained some kind of greasy, fatty material with a “distinctive, pungent and slightly offensive smell”. Butter. Centuries-old butter. Who buried it, and why, remain mysteries that motivated Ben Reade, an experimental chef at the Nordic Food …