Medieval Cooking

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 [...]

It’s the first day of 2010 and I am engaging in the same New Years activities as many of you: recovering from being up very late last night and reviewing my list of tasks for the upcoming quarter:
January 2010
-Submit research paper for the competition in March to editorial team.
-Make final revisions to paper after editorial [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Things will be running late this week. I had intended to get the regular Wednesday update on time, but things have conspired to keep me focused on family. At this point, I am going to skip the Wednesday update and go straight for Friday’s update so I don’t rush to complete something and [...]