The title pretty much sums up the state of my brain.  I've had a lot going on in the past couple of weeks but not much of it shows on th...

Once again, Gen Con has come and gone, and It'll probably take over a week for me to fully recover. This year was great. I had fun, I...

My preparations for the convention are going well. I've got my notes all ready and the menu set for the workshop. I do have one bit of...

It's less than a month before Gen Con , and once again I'll be participating in some of the Writer's Symposium seminars, as well...

When I first started researching medieval cooking - back in the dark ages before the invention of the internet - there were few resources av...

My apologies for the lack of posts recently. I've been a bit busy with the whole real-life thing and have been neglecting the all of yo...

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

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 - ...