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A Long and Ignoble Tradition of Ad Spamming

Culina vetus on 2026-7-13
This morning, I read a comment on a culinary writing group that people preferred printed cookbooks to online recipes because they did not cram ads into their pages and – well – they often used to. Just this weekend, I … Continue reading → read/watch more

Bishop Rüdiger’s Meat Market Rule

Culina vetus on 2026-7-11
This has nothing to do with any of my current projects, but it just came across my feed again and I think it may warrant a post of its own. The rule dates to 1084 and comes from a document … Continue reading → read/watch more

The Seven Seas - Part 1

Nuncheon - Adventures in Medieval Cooking on 2026-7-7
I like a themed event / feast; it gives me springboards to menu ideas (as well as the occasional rabbit hole). For various reasons, the theme for the 2025 Yule Ball was "The Seven Seas". Rabbit hole: Apparently the earliest known appearance of the read/watch more

Pork Roast served Northern Renaissance Style

Culina vetus on 2026-7-7
Continuing the list of roast recipes from Franz de Rontzier begun yesterday, here is the section on pork. Note the author makes no distinction between domestic pig and wild boar. The two were much more similar then than they are … Continue reading → read/watch more

Serving Roast Beef Northern Renaissance Style

Culina vetus on 2026-7-6
Roasting is generally something that historic recipe sources assume as a given; You take a piece of meat, stick it on a spit, and put it by the fire. Everybody who has ever tried it knows that there is a … Continue reading → read/watch more

First, invent the universe

Nuncheon - Adventures in Medieval Cooking on 2026-7-5
Reader, Stuff Happened. It's been almost four years to the day that I last posted in this blog. I continued to cook at SCA events until at the end of 2023 I decided to take a a sabbatical. I was too close to the trees to see the forest, and I felt I read/watch more

E Pluribus Unum – Feeding the Revolution XXIX

Culina vetus on 2026-7-5
The Roman army was probably the most terrifying instrument of power the ancient world had seen, and the reign of Augustus saw it rise to its greatest height. It had triumphed from the Euphrates to the Atlantic, from the Rhine … Continue reading → read/watch more

My green silk 14th century gown on a tower in Wales

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-6-30
 I had bought some of Alfhild's fabric from her widover, my friend Matti, and in a moment of madness I made a dress from green silk that used to be hers to wear at the funeral. I made it in less than three days. The seams are sewn on machin, but read/watch more

Roasting Whole Oxen

Culina vetus on 2026-6-30
There are few stereotypes about medieval food as persistent as the ‘roast beast’, and like most good stereotypes, it has a bit of truth to it. Being able to serve up an entire roast boar or ox displayed wealth and … Continue reading → read/watch more

Watch Out, Guard! – Feeding the Revolution XXVIII

Culina vetus on 2026-6-28
Among the mercenary units that kings could hire in northwestern Europe, the ‘Black Guard’ was top tier. Landsknecht soldiers in their impressive finery, they had fearsome reputation for terrorising the countryside and their legendary battlecry was read/watch more

Green Ravioli from the Solothurn MS

Culina vetus on 2026-6-25
It is quite hot and I am still quite busy, so instead of a long tale of rebellious Romans, here is a recipe from the Solothurn MS that looks vaguely suitable for summer days: B4 If you want to make … Continue reading → read/watch more

A Pair of Villanelles

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-23
On the ferry on the way to and from Drachenwald’s Midsummer Coronation, I wrote two villanelles. It’s not a difficult form, in a technical sense - the repeating lines mean there isn’t as much to write as you might think, and you’ve already set the read/watch more

Flexible Soup – Feeding the Revolution XXVII

Culina vetus on 2026-6-23
It was 9 October 1989, and the people on the streets of Leipzig were scared. Armed only with placards and hope, they were facing armed police and party militia, marching, as they had for several weeks now, through the city … Continue reading → read/watch more

Gingerbread War – Feeding the Revolution XXVI

Culina vetus on 2026-6-20
Those of us who are fascinated by the past all learned at some point that a lot of people are, shockingly, not interested in history. As we studied more, we also learned that, to paraphrase Trotsky, history was often interested … Continue reading → read/watch more

Reflections

Magdalena's kitchen on 2026-6-16
 It has been nearly a year since I last updated this blog. Not because I haven't done anything but because I just haven't thought about it. Time moves along whether I take note of it or not. I have been to events, read cook books, consulted on food read/watch more

 

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