Medieval Cooking

A family that is local to me is being assisted with meals while the mother undergoes medical treatments. We’re using a site called “Food Tidings” (http://www.foodtidings.com/) to schedule who is bringing what when. There’s information about the family’s likes/dislikes/allergies and where and when the drop-off needs to be at the house. It’s really useful for [...]

This was originally written in October of 2009 and somehow never posted.  It was a stressful time of my life, so I am not surprised that I forgot to hit “publish”.  Enjoy.
The last two weeks have been stressful. The weekend before last, my daughter was hospitalized with an asthma “event” and we spent several days [...]

The yearly Wooden Pin competition is scheduled for 22 May 2010. The theme is “The Four Seasons”. The interpretation is being left up to the individual competitor for how that theme is interpreted. I am still up in the air as to whether or not I will be competing as my [...]

I am gearing up to return to full time employment and because of such will live a much more planned life. My updates will remain at approximately every two weeks, so no worries there. I have been taking the opportunity of the last week to spend a lot of time with my family, [...]

I managed to wake up with a cold today and am on decongestants, so there will be no deep analysis. I present you with a good/bad/neutral list of the things that I accomplished yesterday. I will start with the bad so I can end on a high note.
The Bad

The music piece was..not my [...]

March is the month where I am focused on producing the materials for a competition that is taking place the weekend of 27 March. This week is the week of construction and documentation and I am about ready to lose my mind.
The projects that I am documenting/finishing/practicing over the next ten days is:
1. A [...]

http://fourpoundsflour.blogspot.com/
This blog focuses on the cuisine of America during the 18th and 19th centuries. The author, Sarah Lohman, is an amazing woman who provides her readership not only with scintillating prose, but also includes video of her cooking in her apartment in Queens. Her thesis was to create a temporary restaurant reinterpreting historic [...]

The online source for some of the Roman writings that I have been using in my recent chicken research is Lacus Curtius. Not everything has been translated into English, so you are now warned. There is a breadth of topics covered in the available texts, but for my purposes, it is the online [...]

The 2010 IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Cookbook Award Finalists have been announced.
This year, the IACP has a “People’s Choice” award. Follow this link to cast your vote.
American
“DamGoodSweet”
Authors: David Guas and Raquel Pelzel
Publisher: The Taunton Press, Inc.
“My New Orleans: The Cookbook”
Author: John Besh
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
“New American Table”
Authors: Marcus Samuelsson and Heidi [...]

Some days planning is over-rated. I was standing in the kitchen of a friend and watching them bottle the Stout that they had made and realized that I was looking at a ton of yeast that I could be making bread out of. I asked for the barm and was gifted two containers [...]