Resources - Food and Drink

Cooking & Storage

• Basic Cooking Terms
• Historical recipe measures
• Food storage in fantasy worlds (FFA thread)

Food History

• Food History News
• Food Timeline, including
• Food Decades
• World Food History
• Storage Life of Dried Foods
• The Kitchen Project: Food History
• Baking bread in a pre-industrial society (FFA thread)
• Dietary Requirements of a Medieval Peasant
• Cookbook of Colonial Kenya
• VintageRecipes.net

Drinks

• Comic book about the history of beer
• Barley Breeding and Development in the UK, an Historical Perspective
• “A 2,550-year-old Celtic settlement was the site of an ancient brewery capable of turning out large quantities of beer.”
• Iron Age Braumeisters of the Teutonic Forests
• Barley Beer: Iron Age Brew from Central Europe
• Was water really regarded as dangerous to drink in the Middle Ages?
• The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Knight Opened: A cookbook based on the notes of Sir Kenelm Digby, 17th-century English courtier and diplomat, compiled after his death by a servant. Especially well known for its various recipes for mead.
• Evolution of regional alcoholic drinks for made-up universes (FFA thread)