This post may put some people off, but sometimes you’ve just got to speak out. People often assume that because I’m a food geek then I’m al...

From: L'agriculture et maison rustique , Charles Estienne (Rouen, 1658). The works that the laborer should do for each month of the ye...

Last week I had a brief interview with " Goodday Sacramento " on the Sacramento CBS affiliate.  The fact that this was my first TV...

Whether it is dinner at a "medieval-themed" restaurant, a feast held by a historic recreation group, or a home-cooked dinner made ...

It took a bit longer than expected, but the book is now available online. The proof copies looked really nice and Stephanie and I are happy...

Yesterday I picked 8 quinces from the tree in my back yard. Not only is this a big improvement in quantity over last year's harvest of ...

One of the big news stories among the bunch of geeks into Medieval European cuisine is the puff piece that's going around online about ...

I'm pleased to announce the upcoming publication of A Dwarven Cookbook . A collection of 54 authentic Dwarven recipes, including such...

It's now less than three weeks (yikes!) before GenCon .  As in past years, I'm on discussion panels as part of the Writer's Symp...

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...