I was recently directed to the Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin (1337-1346) (thanks, Johnnae!). It's a book of h...

I'm going to jump topics for a moment here, but I promise to get back to the discussion on the quiz posts soon. I just came across a pos...

On Monday I posted a 6 question quiz about medieval cooking. I had tried to phrase the questions so that there would be many possible answe...

I'm on several email lists related to medieval history (surprising, huh?), which means that I end up reading a lot of different viewpoin...

On October 1-3 the Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies hosted the 2009 conference for the Committee on Centers...

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

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...