Rachel Laudan

“A long-lost medieval cookbook, containing recipes for hedgehogs, blackbirds and even unicorns, has been discovered at the British Library. Professor Brian Trump of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the find as near-miraculous. “We’ve been hunting for this book for years. The moment I first set my eyes on it was spine-tingling.”” via Unicorn Cookbook [...]

Of all the difficult things to turn into food (and most plants and animals are difficult to turn into food), cacao beans and their processing rank way up there. Let’s leave to one side the fermenting and cleaning and just think about the grinding of cacao. Because of the oil content, grinding cacao beans is [...]

www.metmuseum.org I subscribe to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s daily feed, highly recommended. So a couple of days ago I was delighted when the title that popped up was “cider.”   Now I have a long term fascination with cider, above all with the fermented cider that in so much of France, Spain, England, the United [...]