As a bit of a disclaimer, I'll start off with a note that the editor of the books mentioned below was kind enough to send me a copy of e...

Last week I wrote a post about a news story about an article in Food and History , noting my skepticism towards some claims about medieval...

On Monday I came across an article referring to a paper on medieval beef consumption.  This article contains the following eyebrow-raising ...

Every now and then I get asked for recipes or information about medieval cooking outside of Europe, and each time it happens I end up mullin...

I recently watched "Supersizers Eat Medieval" ... I know .... I really should do this to myself. Every time I go in hoping for ...

Over the past couple of weeks I've made some major changes to the website, but those changes aren't very obvious. The most recent ...

[a brief digression from the usual medieval fare.] "In just twenty-four hours I’d killed two people, one of them twice." That...

Yesterday I wanted to make a pie for dinner to celebrate Pi day , and being the sort of geek I am, I thought I'd try out something medie...

A couple of weeks back I added this book to the page of Recommended Books , and I've been meaning to post something here about it since ...

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...