Photograph: University of Manchester John Rylands University Library I've recently added a transcription of Forme of Cury to the websit...

The Kalendarium Hortense was published by John Evelyn in 1683. It contains instructions for what a gardener should do throughout the year....

I'm still trying to recover from my week of Pennsic followed by 4 days of Gen Con (talk about culture shock), but I think I'm finall...

The Kalendarium Hortense was published by John Evelyn in 1683. It contains instructions for what a gardener should do throughout the year....

In just over two weeks (and three days after I get home from Pennsic ), I will be Participating in the Writer's Symposium seminars at Ge...

I've been spending a good amount of time lately looking at the John Rylands University images of their copy of Forme of Cury (I know, ...

The Kalendarium Hortense was published by John Evelyn in 1683. It contains instructions for what a gardener should do throughout the year....

On Monday I griped a bit about the lack of a way to link directly to the John Rylands University Library images of "Forme of Cury...

So the latest big news in medieval cuisine is that the John Rylands University Library in Manchester has made images of their copy of "...

Ok, take a good look at the image below ... Now let's think about how people really use refrigerators - assuming of course that we'r...

So here's the fun news: on Tuesday I cooked for the OSU Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies . They did an interview with me las...

The Kalendarium Hortense was published by John Evelyn in 1683. It contains instructions for what a gardener should do throughout the year....

Got a lot I'm up to (more on that later this week) so I haven't posted much lately, but a friend just sent pointed out a website tha...

I've got all sorts of medieval things in the works ... but none of them are ready for the light of day. So as a diversion, I present yo...

Yesterday evening I put the recipe for Sauce for Stekys on the website. This was the indirect result of a puff-piece in the New York Time...

The Kalendarium Hortense was published by John Evelyn in 1683. It contains instructions for what a gardener should do throughout the year....

January: A Kitchen Antonio Tempesta (Italy, Florence, 1555 - 1630) January: A Kitchen (from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ) It's ...

Looking out the kitchen window this morning, I noticed something looked odd with my quince tree. Yes, those beautiful pink blossoms are bloo...

It's been far too long since I posted last. Things got a bit nuts for a while there - a royalty lunch to cook, a feast to help with, ta...

The Kalendarium Hortense was published by John Evelyn in 1683. It contains instructions for what a gardener should do throughout the year....