I will be on hiatus for the next two weeks while we attend the Pennsic War. I have a number of things to share with you when I return, hopefully including some photographs from the Known World A&S Display that will be taking place on 3 August 2009. I will also do my [...]

The last couple of weeks have been dedicated to preparing for Pennsic and there has been very little else going on in my house. Okay, that’s not entirely true. There has been the usual days spent with my daughter going to the park, talking, walking around the track, working on the fruitcake reliquary, [...]

Every year we try to attend the Pennsic War, which is a two week long medievalist convention where we all camp out and dress in pre-17th century clothing (to varying degrees of authenticity). This year we did not know if we would be able to attend until mid-June and ever since then I have [...]

I’m working on a research paper to document a single ingredient, an egg, from its beginning to its use in a dish. This started because I ended up with a variety of chicken that has its origins in the Middle Ages and would be appropriate for such a project. I have been documenting [...]

I suffered from what most women of my generation suffer from; we don’t know how to cook because we didn’t learn from our moms. The foods that our great-grandparents, or grandparents, and our parents cooked is not being held onto and those food traditions are slowly vanishing.
Food and culture are hopelessly intertwined and as [...]