Lost in Translation
November 29th, 2009
The last few weeks have been working through my research paper. It has grown significantly from the documentation of a single breed of chicken and is now a survey of domesticated chickens since the earliest records of domestication through to the latter part of the 17th century (I am using Digby, which was published [...]
Regionalism
June 24th, 2009
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 [...]
Elizabethan Dinner: The menu and original recipes
June 15th, 2009
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 [...]
The Steel Chef Challenge
June 8th, 2009
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 [...]
Making an offal noise
June 1st, 2009
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 [...]