A November Feast in Medieval Europe
By Sarah Peters Kernan November was a bountiful month for food in medieval Europe. The harvest was completed, wine and cider were quietly fermenting, and animals were nearing slaughter. The fattening...
View ArticleMedieval Cookery Rolls as Practical Kitchen Texts
By Sarah Peters Kernan A cookery copied on a roll might seem unwieldy and impractical to the modern mind. Who would record lists of recipes on a long strip of parchment, only to roll it up again for...
View ArticleTo Make a Fine Apple Pye
By Sarah Peters Kernan Forget cold weather and the first frosts of winter; I am already thinking about my spring garden! For years I have been yearning for space to plant a large vegetable garden and...
View ArticleIllustrated Recipes in Crophill’s Cookery
By Sarah Peters Kernan While I was researching medieval and early modern cookeries for my dissertation, I came across several manuscripts that were notable in one regard or another but they did not...
View ArticleWyl bucke his Testament, or, an Ode to Dining on Venison
By Sarah Peters Kernan I recently stumbled upon a small print cookbook at the Newberry Library in Chicago while I was working on another project. I couldn’t help but request this 1560 volume which was...
View ArticleStrawberries: Delicious and Devotional
By Sarah Peters Kernan While looking through the Newberry Library’s extraordinary collection of medieval books of hours, I was surprised to see how frequently strawberries dotted the marginal...
View ArticleRecords and Reminiscences: Some Interesting Aspects of Chiquart’s Du fait de...
By Sarah Peters Kernan With the holiday season behind me, I am already reminiscing about my family’s recent celebrations and thinking ahead to next year. I have gathered recipes I would like to try...
View ArticleOld Cookbooks, New Audiences
By Sarah Peters Kernan In my last post I mentioned that relatively few medieval cookbooks included menus for actual events. The ones that did were typically included in cookeries originally composed...
View ArticleAround the Table: Introductions
Editor’s Note: In this post, we’re delighted to welcome one of our new editors, Sarah Peters Kernan. Sarah completed her Ph.D. in History at the Ohio State University, with a dissertation entitled,...
View ArticleAround the Table: Publisher Chat
Welcome to the first Publisher Chat as part of our new series, Around the Table, in which I will occasionally be talking to editors and publishers of journals and book series dealing with topics...
View ArticleAround the Table: Library Chat
Welcome to the latest Around the Table and return to the Recipes Project Library Chat! Today we travel to the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. I am delighted...
View ArticleAround the Table: Museum Exhibitions
By Sarah Peters Kernan Museums have increasingly been highlighting food, culinary, and dining history in their exhibition schedules. The upcoming months prove to be very exciting for those of us...
View ArticleAround the Table: Chat with a Scholar
This month on Around the Table, I have the pleasure of sharing a conversation with architectural historian Sarah Milne. She was introduced to an early modern English manuscript in the archives while...
View ArticleAround the Table: Research Technologies
This month on Around the Table, I am speaking with Helen Davies and Alexander Zawacki, Program Coordinators of the Lazarus Project and PhD students in English at the University of Rochester. This month...
View ArticleAround the Table: Celebrating Our Contributors
By Sarah Peters Kernan Before the new academic year begins, the Recipes Project would like to celebrate the many accomplishments of our contributors from the past year! Our community has been busy...
View ArticleAround the Table: Media Spotlight
This month on Around the Table, I am chatting with Laura Carlson, producer and host of the podcast The Feast. In other posts this month, we’ll read about many different experiences and methods for...
View ArticleAround the Table: Research Technologies
This month on Around the Table, I am chatting with Christian Reynolds, a lead investigator on the US-UK Food Digital Scholarship network. Since the Recipes Project is a partner organization to the...
View ArticleAround the Table: Events
By Sarah Peters Kernan Two weeks ago the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) hosted their fifth annual Transcribathon. I want to share my Transcribathon experience at the site hosted by the...
View ArticleAround the Table: Museum Exhibitions
By Sarah Peters Kernan This holiday season, many museums internationally are highlighting the histories of food, medicine, and science in special exhibitions. If your travel plans take you to any of...
View ArticleAround the Table: Celebrating Our Contributors
By Sarah Peters Kernan Laura Mitchell, longtime contributor and social media editor for the Recipes Project, recently stepped down after seven years of service. The editorial team will greatly miss her...
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