This originally appeared in “At Branches Reach” the newsletter of Sunderoak.
This column will touch upon a number of aspects of Medieval Cooking and home life with a focus on Sixteenth Century Flemish Food and Life. In part, this first column is to set the stage for the world that Odriana vander Brugghe lives in [...]

First Friday Cooking at Odriana’s
Starting in October, on the first Friday of each month at 7:00 p.m., there will be a medieval cooking gathering at Odriana’s home. This is open to anyone that would like to attend. The first meeting, on Friday, 2 October, 2009 will be a casual, get-to-know-you event with a [...]

We returned from Pennsic on Sunday sunburnt, exhausted, and happy. An unexpected, and very appreciated, invitation from my mother for swimming and dinner was the perfect decompression into the modern world.
Pennsic did not go entirely as planned for me. I had the distinct honor of making the food for a good friend’s vigil [...]