Janette SpeyerSep 5, 2025
For many cultures food carries powerful meanings. For centuries, people have attached food to omens and warnings. Discover cultural beliefs that link food, luck, and life #FoodSuperstitions, #foodhistory, #Foodculture, #History, #Culture, #Food, #Foodfolklore foodculturebites.com/world-oddest...

World’s Oddest Food Superstiti...
World’s Oddest Food Superstitions

Food is nourishment for most of us, but for many cultures it carries powerful meanings. For centuries, people have attached food superstitions to omens and warnings.

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JanetteSpeyerSep 5, 2025

Food may be nourishment for most of us, but for many cultures it also carries powerful meanings. For centuries, people have attached food superstitions to omens and warnings. Discover the cultural beliefs that link food, luck, and life
#FoodSuperstitions,
#foodhistory, #Foodculture, #History, #Culture, #Food, #Foodfolklore

https://foodculturebites.com/world-oddest-food-superstitions/

World’s Oddest Food Superstitions

Food is nourishment for most of us, but for many cultures it carries powerful meanings. For centuries, people have attached food superstitions to omens and warnings.

foodculturebites.com
Folklore, Food & FairytalesDec 21, 2023

My newest letter is now roaming the wild: From The Winter Solstice to Dipping Sauces via The Magic of Trees, Dumplings, Lucrezia Borgia’s Belly Button, Fertility & Fortune-Telling.

https://open.substack.com/pub/folklorefoodfairytales/p/from-the-winter-solstice-to-dipping?

#Folklore #Food #FoodFolklore #Festive #Solstice

From The Winter Solstice to Dipping Sauces

via The Magic of Trees, Dumplings, Lucrezia Borgia's Belly Button, Fertility & Fortune-Telling

Folklore, Food and Fairytales
Folklore, Food & FairytalesNov 19, 2023
Calling all food-loving Norwegians! I would really like to know about Christmas #food traditions between Christmas and New Year, not the celebration days themselves. If you had a family/friends party at that time would it be more likely to be in the form of a sit down dinner or more like a help yourself hot/cold buffet table? Thanks lots in advance!
#Christmas #ChristmasFood #FoodFolklore #traditions #FoodTraditions #Norway #Norwegian
Folklore, Food & FairytalesJun 29, 2023

Did you know that on St Peter’s Day (29 June) in Herefordshire it was believed that rain needed to fall on the orchards to ensure a bountiful apple harvest?

#Folklore #FoodFolklore #Apple @folklore

Folklore, Food & FairytalesJun 21, 2023
If you are looking for food ideas for a solstice celebration consider foods that reflect the nature of the day such as red & orange fruits which represent the fiery nature of the sun, green herbs to banish negativity & attract prosperity, delicious cheese (particularly round ones) for joy & health. If you want to attract a soupçon of passion then add some spices/chilli & maybe a touch of honey in the form of mead to attract money, love & blessings to your home.
@folklore #FoodFolklore #Folklore
Folklore, Food & FairytalesJun 20, 2023

I’m very excited to share my newest letter with you all: From Potion Ingredients in Disguise to Spirits of Spice via Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dumb Cake, Farthing Loaf Day, Midsummer, Summer Solstice Foods & Recipes and A Remedy for Sore Eyes

It’s absolutely free & full of #Folklore for midsummer with food ideas & recipes for #SummerSolstice I also talk Shakespeare & herbs from the witches in Macbeth to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

@folklore #FoodFolklore

https://folklorefoodfairytales.substack.com/p/from-potion-ingredients-in-disguise

From Potion Ingredients in Disguise to Spirits of Spice

Via Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dumb Cake, Farthing Loaf Day, Midsummer, Summer Solstice Foods & Recipes and A Remedy for Sore Eyes

Folklore, Food and Fairytales
Folklore, Food & FairytalesApr 11, 2023
On this wild & windy night it feels appropriate to share this newest episode with you all. I talked with Aaron from @AppFolklorePod about food and folklore of Appalachia. It was such an interesting chat & I learned so much. We talked food, Folklore and stories from Appalachia and I hope you enjoy.
@folklore #Folklore #Foodways #Food #FoodFolklore #Storytelling #FoodHistory
https://hestiaskitchen.co.uk/2023/04/11/an-appalachian-visit/
An Appalachian Visit

In this episode I talked with Aaron Bobick the host of the Appalachian Folklore Podcast and we talked all things food, folklore and story.

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Folklore, Food & FairytalesApr 7, 2023

Which piece of Good Friday folklore would interest you most? I will share when this poll is over.

#Folklore #Food #FoodFolklore #superstition @folklore

Parsley
60%
Eggs
16%
Bread
24%
Poll ended at .
Folklore, Food & FairytalesApr 6, 2023
My newest letter ‘From Figgy Sunday to Passion Pudding’ is all about Good Friday food folklore, herb lore and folklore based gardening advice. I think you might enjoy it. There is less about hot cross buns than you probably imagine & definitely has less popularly known facts you could use to astonish friends at a social gathering (Also it’s completely free & you don’t have to subscribe to read it, although obviously I’d love that)
@folklore #Folklore #Food #FoodFolklore
https://folklorefoodfairytales.substack.com/p/from-figgy-sunday-to-passion-pudding
From Figgy Sunday to Passion Pudding

via Fig Sue, Hot Cross Buns, Bread, Eggs and Folklore Gardening Tips

Folklore, Food and Fairytales