World war food

14 January 2020 by Jon Bushell

We’re only a couple of weeks into the New Year and already the holidays seem like a distant memory. After…

Busy New Year

7 January 2020 by Rupert Baker

A happy 2020 from the Royal Society Library staff. We hope you all had an excellent festive season and have…

Cheesy Christmas

17 December 2019 by Virginia Mills

The festive season is officially upon us and the gastronomical over-indulgence of Christmas has already begun for me. For some…

The great plantain debate

3 December 2019 by Frankie Chappell

While browsing our catalogue, as one does, my eye fell on a file entitled ‘Substitute foods from the West Indies’…

Divine fermentation?

19 November 2019 by Fiona Callaghan

In these days of trendy craft beers, artisan gin and molecular mixology, sometimes only a traditional beverage will do. One…