Happy Holidays to all my fellow Rennies out there! Wishing you and yours the merriest of seasons and remember: we're getting all that much closer to faire time! :-D Here's my post for some Celtic holiday music...enjoy!

Medieval/Renaissance Cooking

I have discovered I have an affinity for cooking...I thus far have 8 books on various topics as well as 6 based on drinks. I love the idea of cooking foods of bygone eras, though admittedly, it can be a bit harder to find some of the ingredients needed. I also have to be in the mood to put in the time and effort lol. I recently added the wonderful blog Inn at the Crossroads, which is dedicated to the food mentioned in the popular "Game of Thrones" series, to the links page (so be sure to check it out!), and they have put out a cookbook that corresponds with it. I've tried only a drink from there (which proved to taste quite interesting), so I can't say how I found some of the recipes, but a majority look very good. Should you want to try your hand at a culinary time trip, I poked around Amazon and found a nice selection of cookbooks, some of which they say delve a bit more into the historical aspect of food in that era. There's probably more than I can hope to own that I've listed here, but hopefully there will be a few beneficial to folks out there, and who knows, I may be able to add some to my collection one day...per usual, should you try any of these, do share how it went!

• Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650
• Medieval Celebrations: Your Guide to Planning and Hosting Spectacular Feasts, Parties, Weddings, and Renaissance Fairs
• Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
• Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony
• To the King's Taste: Richard II's Book of Feasts and Recipes Adapted for Modern Cooking
• The Medieval Kitchen: A Social History with Recipes
• The Medieval Cookbook
• Food & Feast in Medieval England
• Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History
• Food and Cooking in Medieval Britain ~ History and Recipes
• Food and Cooking in 16th Century Britain: History and Recipes
• All the King's Cooks: The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace
• Food & Feast in Tudor England
• Tudor Cookery: Recipes and History
• To the Queen's Taste (Elizabethan Feasts and Recipes Adapted for Modern Cooking)
• Sallets, Humbles & Shrewsbery Cakes: A Collection of Elizabethan Recipes Adapted for the Modern Kitchen
• Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook
• The Shakespeare Cookbook
• Dining With William Shakespeare
• Cooking with Shakespeare

And, of course:

• The Unofficial Game of Thrones Cookbook: From Direwolf Ale to Auroch Stew - More Than 150 Recipes from Westeros and Beyond
• A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook