The most common question that food historians face is "How old is the recipe for [insert favorite food]?" Sometimes the answer is ...

The Kitchen, Food, and Cooking in Reformation Germany Volker Bach Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 1442251271 ...

I will admit that I'm not the most organized person in the world, and this very post is a good demonstration of both my lack of organiza...

June 15-19, 2016 Greater Columbus Convention Center Columbus, Ohio, 43215, USA Origins is just a couple of weeks away! As with the...

So this evening I was leafing through my copy of The Herbs & Vegetables of Italy by Giacomo Castelvetro (What?  Doesn't everyone sp...

Sometimes you need to go back and take a second look at a book. I first came across references to The Medieval Cookbook sometime arou...

Let me speak plainly here - translating a medieval cookbook is a bite in the butt. It's tedious, there's no real money to be made fr...

Going back through some files, I came across a portion of La Maison Rustique   (Rouen, 1658)  that I had translated in an effort to deduce t...

Gen Con Indy 2016,  August 4 - 7 I've just heard back from Gen Con that my seminars are now active and viewable by the public, so...

One of my co-workers who knows I'm into medieval cooking sent me a link to a video about D&D iron rations and asked me what I though...

As many of my friends can tell you, I really like saffron. I go through more of the stuff in a month than most Americans use in their entir...

21 French Medieval Cookery Recipes + 10 Unknown Facts  About Medieval France: Tasty Medieval French Food Bad Side :  Poorly edit...

I came across an image today that I've seen before and mentioned in some of my seminars, so I thought I'd post it here before I lost...

[This is an  update to   my earlier posts   about this   book ] This morning I received an update from the publisher which include...

Late yesterday I received criticism about placing a copyright notice on the texts I've transcribed from medieval cooking manuscripts an...

[This is an update to   my earlier posts   about this book] First off, I'd like to thank everyone for being so supportive du...

[This is an update to  my earlier posts about this book ] Amazon.com was reasonably quick in responding and removing the book (both ...

[This is an update to my earlier post about this book ] My polite inquiry to the publisher was not answered, so I was forced to be a ...

Recipes from John Crophill's Commonplace Book  (Harley MS 1735) This manuscript is dated before 1485. The 69 recipes in John Crophi...

Recipes from John Crophill's Commonplace Book  (Harley MS 1735) This manuscript is dated before 1485. The 69 recipes in John Crophi...