A couple of weeks back I posted about a batch of cormary I made up where the broth unexpectedly turned into jelly .  Of course, being of th...

My family and I spent the week after Easter on vacation, and the house we stayed in had full cable. This of course led me to watch many ma...

Ok, this isn't at all medieval - even back then they knew the world was round - but this has to be one of the most incredible cakes I...

A good while back, Kristen (my apprentice) managed to get a hold of some cow's feet and tried making meat jelly.  She used a recipe from...

It's official. I will once again be giving a seminar on medieval cooking at the GenCon gaming convention in Indianapolis. This year...

Quite a while back I put some notes on the website about medieval sugar. They're all extracts from cookbooks and such detailing the ty...

One of the neat tricks I've learned from talking with caterers and the like is that when you're cooking rice for a lot of people (e....

The other night I was cooking dinner, and as I was seasoning whatever it was, a thought occurred to me. Why pepper? On just about every di...

Several months back I was looking for venison recipes and came across a recipe in "The Good Housewife's Jewell" (England, 16th...

Ohio State University's Center for Medieval and Rennaissance Studies interviewed me for their monthly newsletter, Nouvelles/Nouvelles -...

While considering the potential renovation of our home kitchen the issue of choosing a gas or electric cooktop came up, and a strange though...

There are a number of books on my shopping list right now, so I thought I'd mention a few of them (in no particular order). Food in Medi...

Physicists sometimes refer to "The Arrow of Time" - the apparent directionality of how time flows. Apparently there are some sub-...

So ... I'm going through the calendar, trying to figure out which medieval re-creation events I'll be going to for the next few mont...

Foods for Medieval Field Kitchen In my first post I talked about the furniture and equipment I'd need. Here I'll be looking at the ...

A while back I came across the picture below, and of course it got me thinking. "Field kitchen? I could really use a proper medieval ...

As a food-geek, I often find myself looking at the wrong part of a painting. Presented with a medieval scene depicting Joseph and Mary on t...

Let's face it, being proven wrong is embarrassing. I try to view it all as a valuable learning experience - something that builds charac...

For the past few years I've been making a traditional plum pudding at Christmastime. The recipe I use is a sort of average of the one ...

While looking through Christmas cookie recipes last year, I came across a couple for rumballs. I probably would have skipped right over the...