The Storyteller's Supper

The Storyteller’s Supper brings food, folklore and oral storytelling together in a collection of traditional tales, rhymes and riddles. Its stories move through field and furrow, orchard and hedgerow, farmyard and dairy, linking ingredients and dishes with the beliefs, memories and customs surrounding them. Among the tales are ‘Jack and the Boggart’, ‘A Baker for the Fairies’ and ‘The Yazzle Tree’.

Recipes give the collection a practical, sociable dimension, with dishes including turnip and sage soup and Cheshire cheese and onion pie. Taffy Thomas also includes Somerset and Westmorland dialect material, while Dotty Kultys supplies black-and-white and colour illustrations. The result is an affectionate account of food as folklore, shared work and storytelling fuel.