I had the pleasure of taking a breadmaking class from Larry Lagatutta, owner and head baker at Enrico Biscotti in the Strip District. It started with the class participants sitting around a long table sharing a divine breakfast of: roasted vegetables; hard cheeses; spaghetti and meatballs; biscotti; misc. baked goods; beans and greens with [...]

David’s Cooking Site: Cooking Martino
David Walddon decided to take on an enormous task and cook his way through “Libre de Arte Coquinaria” by Martino di Como and blog about it. Just the kind of thing I find terribly interesting and exciting. The recipes that he has completed are cataloged here and include his [...]

Recently I was sent a link to an article about a very interesting study done in England that identified that food taste in that country was as unique and identifiable by region as accents. The why for this was quite varied and some of it struck me as a bit of a stretch such [...]

Much coolness happened this weekend. 
I was contacted by the Zwei Fat Chicks, Canadian Podcast Divas. Their most recent podcast is primarily a review of The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. As part of their discussion about the idea of the 100 mile diet, they feature medievalcooking.org.
If you are not listening [...]

This was nearly a year without Pennsic for my family which would have been sad. But since it was for good reasons it would have been okay. Our situation changed enough to allow us to go, but we weren’t sure until the very last minute. This weekend we registered and today I [...]

This past week was a week where I was not feeling it as far as blogging goes. The week before that took a lot out of me and I fell behind on basic house maintenance and self-care. Last week was more about making my environment comfortable than about food and food blogging, which is sometimes [...]

I had this idea in my head to create an opportunity that would span skill levels and everyone would gain something from it. The plan was to allow people that were new to redacting to approach redacting medieval recipes in a less stressful fashion and for those already comfortable with redacting to give them [...]

Recently, I find myself considering what food really means to me. It’s clear that food is important to me, I wouldn’t be what I am if it wasn’t. But, what does it really mean? The answer that I have found is that it is about building community and sustaining family. I [...]

Eating responsibly should include some thought towards waste. What is more wasteful than only eating bits and pieces of an animal that has been slaughtered on our behalf? There is a new movement towards nose-to-tail eating that is gaining steam in the environment of American frugal-chic. It wastes nothing and offal [...]