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A Feast of Food Folk Tales
‘You and me, me and you, we all bring something to the stew, From the tales we tell, to the food we’ve got, we all bring something to the pot.’
Over the last fifty years, Taffy Thomas has shared the stage with noted Lakeland chefs, who have tickled his palate with tastings and information about dishes and ingredients, which he uses to season these magical stories, telling the oral history of food.
This feast of traditional tales is spiced up with the rhymes and riddles that always enrich Taffy’s work, as well as charming illustrations from artist Dotty Kultys, and will appeal to all who savour stories and food.
"Taffy Thomas' The Storyteller's Supper: A Feast of Food Folk Tales is tasty reading with Slow Food Movement founder Carlo Petrini's foreword as appetiser and Dotty Kulty's colourful illustrations as seasoning."
30th January, 2017 in Folklore
In December 2016, an animated adaptation of The Hunchback and the Swan, a popular folk tale published by The History Press, debuted at an exclusive screening at Aardman. The tale features in three titles written by storyteller Taffy Thomas and the film was created by Dotty K…
6th October, 2016 in Folklore
In the 1980s, folk singer Mike Jones wrote The Storyteller, a song inspired by the work of his friend, Taffy Thomas. Cherished by Taffy for the past thirty years, The Storyteller is reproduced here as a poem, its words perfectly encapsulating Taffy’s own thoughts on the…
