The Art of Slicing Fish and Fowl in Medieval Japan
In Western eyes, the delicately cut piece of food is often regarded as central to traditional Japanese cooking. The skilful use of the knife is indeed one of the most prominent features of the Japanese kitchen, and mastery of various cutting-techniques is a matter of course to the Japanese chef as well as to the ambitious homemaker.
Stew and salted meat – opulent normality in the diet of every day
For the majority of people, a hot cooked meal (mageiria) was normally offered as ‘deipnon’ only once a day, if served at all, and this for several reasons.
Famine for Profit: Food Surpluses in Medieval Germany
A reading of Malthus’s text reveals that his argument was essentially religious—violation of his “principle” of population was a violation of god’s will…
Byzantine Stamp with the Temple Menorah discovered in Israel
The tiny stamp was used to identify baked products and it probably belonged to a bakery that supplied kosher bread to the Jews of Acre in the Byzantine period.
Medieval Mushroom Soup
Medieval Mushroom Soup is from ‘The Cuisine of the Teutonic Grand Masters in Malbork Castle’, by Bogdan Galazka. This mushroom soup takes three different types of flavourful fungus combined with port wine and butter to create a rich, fragrant dish that captivates the pallet.
Medieval Christmas Cookies Still In Fashion
So what does a Christmas cookie from centuries ago look like? This time of year, a bakery in Pennsylvania Dutch country is busy making cookies the same way they were made in medieval Germany, and their edible pieces of art history have attracted customers from all over the globe.
Mmmmm….Medievalicious! Medieval Soups from Battle Castle
The good people at Battle Castle are offering their viewers three medieval soup recipes, just in time for Christmas.
The Origins of Tea Drinking in Britain
The Origins of Tea Drinking in Britain Macadam, Joseph P. The Bulletin of the English Society, Vol.37 (2009) Abstract On September 25, 1660, the…
The Sweet Side of War: The Place of Honey in Military Provisioning
The Sweet Side of War: The Place of Honey in Military Provisioning Paper given by Ilana Krug at the High Medieval Warfare session,…
Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, A.D. 750–950
Revolutionary advances of the natural sciences will transform our understanding of the human past. This case study supports that thesis by connecting new data arising from the last decade’s scientific work in palaeoclimatology with the history of the Carolingian empire.
What was kosher in Byzantium?
What was kosher in Byzantium? Crostini, Barbara Eat, Drink and be Merry (Luke 12: 19): Food and Wine in Byzantium, Ashgate, (2007) Abstract The question…
Connections Between Body and Soul: The Asceticism of Medieval Saints
Connections Between Body and Soul: The Asceticism of Medieval Saints Hanson, Sarah E. UCI Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol.12 (2009) Abstract The relationship between…
Mealtime in monasteries: the culture of the Byzantine refectory
Mealtime in monasteries: the culture of the Byzantine refectory By Alice-Mary Talbot Eat, Drink and be Merry (Luke 12: 19): Food and Wine…
500 years ago, yeast’s epic journey gave rise to lager beer
In the 15th century, when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a microscopic stowaway somehow made its way to…
“Of Fish and Flesh and Tender Breede / Of Win Both White and Reede”: Eating and Drinking in Middle English Narrative Texts
It is the aim of this study to take a look at some examples of the reflection in Middle English narrative texts of the remaining physiological necessity – eating and drinking – in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the ways in which these all too human activities are exploited for literary purposes in the period with which are concerned
Between the field and the plate: how agricultural products were processed into food
Between the field and the plate: how agricultural products were processed into food By Dionysios Stathakopoulos Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, Luke 12:19:…
The Flower of Wheat: Bread in the Middle and Colonial Ages
The Flower of Wheat: Bread in the Middle and Colonial Ages By Vickie L. Ziegler Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History (2007)…
Call for Papers: Does Mead Maketh Mede? Medieval Food Taboos and Food Hierarchies
Does Mead Maketh Mede? Medieval Food Taboos and Food Hierarchies 2012 International Congress on Medieval Studies Call for Papers: In the late fourteenth-century,…
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: a paleopathological and paleodietary perspective
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: apaleopathological and paleodietary perspective Yoder, Cassady J. PhD Thesis, Texas A&M University,…
Preliminary evidence for medieval Polish diet from carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes
Preliminary evidence for medieval Polish diet from carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes By Laurie J Reitsema, Douglas E Crews and Marek Polcyn Journal…
Medieval advice to pregnant mothers: don’t drink water, have wine instead
Medieval medical opinion believed that foods could play an important role in the health and behaviour of people – certain kinds of foods, if eaten too much, could cause illness or cause a person to become depressed or melancholy.