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

The other day I was browsing through Menagier de Paris (yes, I'm geeky enough that I browse through medieval cookbooks) and I came acros...

Late last week my family had lunch at a small restaurant on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Then we went back the next day because we...

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

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....