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Yellow Pepper Sauce from the Solothurn MS

Posted on 2 August 2026 by carlton_bach

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 →

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Revolt of the Dinner Clubs – Feeding the Revolution XXXIII

Posted on 30 July 2026 by carlton_bach

Anyone who mattered agreed that running a large city took personal qualities gained through upbringing and tradition. That was really true of any large polity. A village headman or ship’s captain might be chosen from the common run, but for … Continue reading →

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The Village of Forest Guardians – Feeding the Revolution XXXII

Posted on 28 July 2026 by carlton_bach

On 9 June 2026, the state government of North Rhine-Westfalia announced its intention to extend environmental protections to a forested area near Aachen. This administrative act, in itself unremarkable, marks the end of one of the more memorable battles over … Continue reading →

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Herring and Kaiser in a Pickle – Feeding the Revolution XXXI

Posted on 20 July 2026 by carlton_bach

It was July 1917, in the middle of the First World War, and SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, the newest of the German navy’s Kaiser-class battleships, lay immobile in the middle of the Kiel canal. Germany’s most strategic waterway was blocked, and … Continue reading →

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A Fourteenth-Century Poem of Table Manners

Posted on 19 July 2026 by carlton_bach

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 →

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Houses by the Harbour – Feeding the Revolution XXX

Posted on 18 July 2026 by carlton_bach

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 →

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A Long and Ignoble Tradition of Ad Spamming

Posted on 13 July 2026 by carlton_bach

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 →

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Bishop Rüdiger’s Meat Market Rule

Posted on 11 July 2026 by carlton_bach

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 →

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Pork Roast served Northern Renaissance Style

Posted on 7 July 2026 by carlton_bach

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 →

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Serving Roast Beef Northern Renaissance Style

Posted on 6 July 2026 by carlton_bach

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 →

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