I mentioned in an earlier post that I was redoing the guts behind the Medieval Cookbook Search . Today I'm announcing that the monumen...

Before getting into the subject of this rant, here's a warning about what triggered it: Yes, I've been watching The Tudors Fro...

A couple of weeks back I was talking with a friend about indexing texts.  She (Hi Drea!) works with medieval dye recipes rather than culinar...

Last night I tried out a new recipe (a modern one for crab soup, from Chef David Young's cookbook ), and that got me thinking about the ...

My son (age 10) learned a lesson about sauces this morning, specifically that when you allow a sauce containing dairy to boil, it breaks. ...

Last night we had our Solstice dinner, celebrating the long night with the kids and a couple of (newlywed) friends (Hi Kristen & Shane!)...

Barring last minute changes, I think I've got the menu set for dinner tomorrow.  Here's what we'll be having: Roast Capon Roas...

I've got two "big" dinners to cook next weeks.  The first is a solstice dinner for my immediate family and a couple friends (H...

A while back there was a post to the SCA Cooks mailing list by Johnna Holloway (Hi Johnnae! Thanks!) that contained these ... guidelines? ...

The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching for those of us here in the US - one that is pretty much all about the food. The menu for this year...

Last week I was looking for a new recipe to try out for dinner. I wanted something that would serve as a main dish, would use eggs (because...

Some quick updates on assorted subjects: A couple of weeks back I posted about apple pie recipes , where I'd picked out a few potentia...

Somehow the month of September managed to zip past and I was too wrapped up in other things to post here. At any rate, apples are now in s...

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....