Straight to the recipe Mushroom pie from Lancelot de Casteau This mushroom pie from 1604 is much more modern than…
Russian Salad the Dutch way I suppose Russian Salad is a popular dish all over the world, but I wonder…
People always think first of Italian pasta at the mention of fresh pasta. But many cuisines have a tradition of fresh noodles,…
Straight to the recipe A bright summer-sauce from the sixteenth century Blackbirds, thrushes, finches - who doesn't enjoy hearing these…
Straight to the recipe This recipe for broad beans is taken from the sixteenth-century cookbook Opera by Italian Bartolomeo Scappi (see bibliography). more…
Straight to the recipe A Roman recipe with broad beans Prior to the transatlantic migration of the American Phaseolus-family (amongst them…
Recipes from the seventeenth century During Lent, between carnival and Easter, the catholic church (and after the Reformation several protestant…
This the third recipe for Good Friday. The other recipes are Pomegranate Salad and Jacobin Sops. If one grows spinach…
Meat stock from the nineteenth century Soup is an important part of the Eastern-European kitchen. In the Gift for young…
In the introduction to the recipe for Pomegranate Salad I mentioned the only day that the (catholic) French alle ate…