I'm now (mostly) recovered from cooking the feast on Saturday . Even though it went well - in fact almost too well, in that there were ...

The feast is only a few days away, and I'm now putting together my Brain Book™ . An important part of this notebook is the shopping lis...

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

Having had some success with changing our diet a bit in order to get a sense of the medieval European diet, this year Cindy and I decided ...

I've been asked to cook the feast for an upcoming SCA event here in southwest Ohio, and I thought this would be a good chance to docume...

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

Last week I went to see the movie, "Avatar". On the whole it's a pretty good film (read: an overdone plot done very very well...

There's some really neat stuff available through Google Books, and I realized that over the past few months I've used their "Li...

I'm browsing through the collection of "Culinary Prints" at Academia Barilla when I come aross this image. La grigliata - ...

One of the things that I've always tended to get all geeky about is calendars. For some reason the various methods used around the worl...

The last couple of months went by in a blur, but apparently very little of what I did was related to medieval food. The holiday insanity o...

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

As a cook, much of what I create is gone within a matter of hours. Nothing physical remains of my creative efforts - except perhaps for a f...

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

A couple of weeks back I posted a 6 question quiz about medieval cooking. I had tried to phrase the questions so that there would be many p...

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

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...