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A Disappearing Kingdom – Feeding the Revolution XIX

Posted on 17 April 2026 by carlton_bach

Big building projects in the countryside tend to make a lot of people unhappy, but archeologists love them. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany saw an enormous amount of infrastructure development, and in the process, excavations and … Continue reading →

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Journeymen’s Strike: Feeding the Revolution XVIII

Posted on 15 April 2026 by carlton_bach

From 23 to 25 August of 1791, the city of Hamburg was filled with songs and old-world pageantry. Processions of journeymen paraded through the streets to music, waving flags and green boughs. The Honourable Council was terrified. Just a few … Continue reading →

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Getting Colossally Drunk (Royal Prussian Version)

Posted on 10 April 2026 by carlton_bach

A friend of mine whose skill as a herbalist and craftsperson are deserving of their own channel, sent me a gem they discovered online. It is the 1910 manual on bowls and punches for field and exercise use in the … Continue reading →

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Building Legends: Feeding the Revolution XVII

Posted on 9 April 2026 by carlton_bach

If you believed the official line, East Berlin in 1953 was a relatively happy place. Governed by a benevolent party under a people’s democracy, its inhabitants were building a happier future for everyone from the ruins of war. The city … Continue reading →

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A Museum Weekend

Posted on 6 April 2026 by carlton_bach

There are no Easter recipes to share this time. Instead of cooking a feast, I had the chance to meet up with friends to go to some of the amazing museums Munich offers. I still haven’t had the time for … Continue reading →

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A Description of Danish Foodways

Posted on 1 April 2026 by carlton_bach

In honour of the day, I am once more departing from the Feeding the Revolution series to bring you a fragment from the rich non-recipe manuscript tradition of medieval Europe. I referred before to the Scottish (or Saxon?) dish and … Continue reading →

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Feasts and Nuisances: Feeding the Revolution XVI

Posted on 26 March 2026 by carlton_bach

The city of Braunschweig was an important place in late medieval Germany: A trading hub, a member of the Hansa, independent of its dukes from 1430 onwards, and supporting a web of local alliances. In the early 1440s, it was … Continue reading →

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Potatoes of Despair: Feeding the Revolution XV

Posted on 23 March 2026 by carlton_bach

In February 1893, a private staging of Gerhart Hauptmann’s play Die Weber (The Weavers) was held at the Neues Theater in Berlin. The performance was limited to members because the police had banned its public performance, and it would not … Continue reading →

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Of Pudding and Respect: Feeding the Revolution XIV

Posted on 18 March 2026 by carlton_bach

Being Prussian consul in the port city of Göteborg in 1843 was not an exciting job. At least, not until 15 August when the captain of the schooner Maria von Ueckermünde presented himself to demand the arrest of his entire … Continue reading →

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Feeding the Revolution: Freedom and Fish Soup

Posted on 15 March 2026 by carlton_bach

In Late Medieval Germany, most cities had no more than a few thousand inhabitants. Only the largest came to much more than 10,000. But in June of 1476, the tiny village of Niklashausen in the Tauber valley hosted a crowd … Continue reading →

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