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Yellow Pepper Sauce from the Solothurn MS

Culina vetus on 2026-8-2
This is a short post, because life has been leaving me little time for long ones. I will be very busy for the coming week and a half, and not sure I will be able to post anything, but here … Continue reading → read/watch more

A Fourteenth-Century Poem of Table Manners

Culina vetus on 2026-7-19
On the second day of being stuck at home sick instead of in Paris with a dearly beloved person (boo to food poisoning), at least there is the upside of time to dedicate to my hobby. I found a modern … Continue reading → read/watch more

Houses by the Harbour – Feeding the Revolution XXX

Culina vetus on 2026-7-18
Hamburg has lately become a popular tourism destination, and one of the things many visitors do is take the ferry line 62 down the Elbe for a scenic ride. As it glides past the 1912 tunnel entrance building towards the … Continue reading → read/watch more

The Night Before The Pursuit

The Joy of Seax on 2026-7-18
I just found this in older notes, and am reposting it. It’s from 2020. This sonnet arises from my research in historical Irish hospitality, and the way in which it was codified in law, contrasted against the story of Diarmuid & Gráinne, the read/watch more

Anglo Normans

The Irish Ages on 2026-7-16
Passing through the countryside, seeing large fields of wheat, oats and barley, I am often reminded that the arrival of the Anglo-Normans transformed many aspects of agriculture and food in medieval Ireland. Living in an area where the Anglo-Normans read/watch more

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

 

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