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ostrichson.bsky.social
French fries aren't called "FRENCH" because they were invented in France. They're actually from Belgium where potatoes were originally chopped into fry shape using the guillotine. Follow for more #CulinaryHistory facts.
March 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
hjsm81.bsky.social
Pava.

#OldKitchen #VintageVibes #KitchenPhotography #RusticCharm #NostalgicSpaces #HomeCooking #CulinaryHistory #RetroDesign #KitchenInspiration #FoodiePhotography #InteriorDesign #TimelessBeauty #CottageCore #HeritageHome #PhotographyLovers
July 18, 2026 at 6:55 PM
sophiarea.bsky.social
I took a wonderful watercolor class with @caseformaking.bsky.social . Painted the Chaco Canyon cacao vessels. First attempt.
#cacao #watercolor #chacocanyon #newmexico #historian #foodhistorian #culinaryhistory #chocolate #ceramics #archeology
I took a wonderful watercolor class with @caseformaking.bsky.social . Painted the Chaco Canyon cacao vessels. First attempt. #cacao #watercolor #chacocanyon #newmexico #historian #foodhistorian #culinaryhistory #chocolate #ceramics #archeology
February 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
junehawk.bsky.social
Hey, look, I actually made something and posted about it!

Reconstructing Panis Quadratus, Pompeii's Famous Bread
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#histfood #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #foodculture
Reconstructing Panis Quadratus, Pompeii's Famous Bread
Thanks for reading Historical Foodways!
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July 30, 2026 at 7:56 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Read a #medievalsky recipe for deep-fried, battered custard and you understand the deep heritage of State Fair snacks.

www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/27/f...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #fried
A 1491 woodcut showing a woman milking a cow. The woman, wearing a red dress and headscarf, is seated behind the standing cow, with one hand on the animal's hindquarters and the other on the udder. A wooden pail full of milk is shown standing underneath the cow, a second one further forward.
September 27, 2026 at 5:54 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
This fifteenth-century recipe for chicken in aspic includes instructions for dealing with a greasy jelly.

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky

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Remedying Greasy Aspic | culina vetus
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April 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
greerjacksonfood.bsky.social
Ziryab of Baghdad, a Black Semitic musician, carried Abbasid dining traditions to Córdoba and formalized the three‑course meal — soup, main, dessert — a structure that later shaped European dining.

#BlackFood #BlackHomecraft #Foodie #CulinaryHistory
September 22, 2026 at 10:39 AM
deliciouslegacy.bsky.social
More Byzantine cured meat, this by Ursula Janssen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUx...

To complement the posts I did yesterday.

#historicrecipes #historicfood #byzantium #bynantinerecipes #culinaryhistory
Byzantine Bites: 2 x Cured Dried Meats
YouTube video by Ursula's Historical Recipes (and some books)
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August 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Do I still count as an art historian? 🤔 At its best, it's the most INTER of disciplines!

#ArtHistory #BookHistory #HistoryOfScience #FandomStudies #CulinaryHistory
rmathematicus.bsky.social Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · Sep 21
Art historians, @celinecamps.bsky.social needs you to set up a starter pack, so make yourselves known to her and to each other. Everybody else repost this please so that so many people as possible get to see it and the Bluesky art historians can unite!
September 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
The same recipe for a booby-trapped flaming pig's head from two separate sources about a century apart. Proof practical jokes don't get old.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/09/29/f...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #medievalsky #flambè
Illustration from a 1624 carving manual. The engraving shows a whole roast pig, its legs drawn up close to the body, with an apple in its snout. Lines and numbers on and around the body indicate how it is to be carved.
September 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Another recipe from the Solothurn MS: sweet-sour chard served cold. Sometimes, Renaissance food can go pretty nouvelle cuisine.

www.culina-vetus.de/2026/05/11/s...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #medievalsky
Illustration from a late fourteenth century Tacuinum Sanitatis showing Beta vulgaris. The drawing shows a woman in a white dress kneeling in a field picking chard. A basket to her left is already filled with leaves, and all around here, more are growing. The background is framed by stylised trees.
May 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Making plum fruit leather as described in the c. 1600 Oeconomia ruralis et domestica, a #peasantfood from Silesia. I'd serve it with millet porridge.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/09/28/a...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern
A photograph showing dark, slightly shiny rolls of plum fruit leather arranged on a wooden plate against a wooden work surface.
September 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today, a recipe for instant horseradish sauce powder from c. 1500. Just add broth (or wine or almond milk).

www.culina-vetus.de/2026/05/10/i...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky #earlymodern
The first page of the manuscript: A page of yellowed paper with one column of handwritten text and floral decoration around the margins.
May 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
alessandrapino.bsky.social
New publication ✨
Delighted to share that my article “Ropa Vieja: A Colonial Stew of Global Threads” is out now in The Recipes Project’s Autumn 2025 issue, Globalizing Early Modern Recipes.

📝 Read it here: recipes.hypotheses.org/26459

#FoodHistory #CulinaryHistory #TheRecipesProject #RopaVieja
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
hildemara.bsky.social
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#CulinaryHistory #Bread #Pane #Food #Cooking #Baking #Culture #History
The History of Bread — The Food That Started Revolutions
YouTube video by Crumb Lore
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July 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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#FoodHistory #History #CulinaryHistory #iehca #FoodSky #skystorians #Alimentation #CuturalHistory #SocialHistory #HistorySky
April 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today's recipe from the 15th-century Dorotheenkloster MS is basic: pear puree with caramelised honey and spices. It includes an interesting steaming technique, though, and it would surely taste good.

#culinaryhistory #medievalsky

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Pears alongside flowering forget-me-nots. This is a page from the late sixteenth-century Mira Calligraphiae produced for then Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. The illumination shows two pears still attached to a twin stem with leaves.
February 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
So, there is a recipe for what is pretty clearly #Baumkuchen from around 1500, and I nearly missed it because it is named like a roast custard. Naming stuff is hard...

www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/21/b...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky #baking
Modern technique of making Baumkuchen: The photograph shows an outdoor gas grill with a spit set up to rotate automatically in front and a batter pan underneath. A person standing outside the picture with only the hands visible is pouring batter over the rotating spit, building up layers.
September 21, 2026 at 7:10 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
How do you keep cherries fresh? In a well, actually...

www.culina-vetus.de/2026/06/05/k...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #preservation
Still life by Osias Beert. The painting shows a slightly dented pewter bowl heaped with fresh cherries.
June 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
An interesting find in the 15th-century Dorotheenkloster MS: Instructions for drying (named) mushrooms. This is quite uncommon in medieval sources where mushrooms were usually considered unhealthy, not proper food at all.

#culinaryhistory #medievalsky

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Illustration of generic mushrooms from the late fourteenth century Tacuinum Sanitatis Casanatense (Cod. Casanatense 459). The illumination shows a group of three mushrooms. The central, large one has a white stem and brown cap, the smaller ones flanking it are all white with grey shading. They are shown growing from a meadow, out of proportion to the stylised grass and flowers. Latin text is written beneath them, flanked by floral ornament.
February 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
midnightwater.bsky.social
I totally forgot Italy didn't have tomatoes until they were discovered in North America. I never thought to look into the original pasta dishes, cause I just saw a video of Medieval Lasagna 🫠😅 #foodies #food #foodhistory #culinaryhistory
July 9, 2026 at 9:59 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today, I have two incomplete #fifteenthcentury recipes for making #mead from the Dorotheenkloster MS. They are interesting, but I have no way of testing them.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/06/26/m...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky #brewing
Illumination from the late 14th century Tacuinum Sanitatis Casanatense. The picture shows three woven bee skeps with a large number of bees swarming around them and moving in and out of the holes.
June 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today, it is four recipes for fresh (i.e. not preserved) #sausages from 1547. Liver, lungs, blood, but also cream, fine meat, and spices.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/06/s...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #medievalsky
A miniature from the Hausbuch der Mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung, 15th century Nuremberg. The image shows a butcher processing a pig lying on a board. A table with butchering tools and detached pig legs and a vat with blood are shown in the foreground while sausages are hanging over a pole in the background.
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
alessandrapino.bsky.social
Back from an amazing time in York for the Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions! A beautiful day filled with fascinating talks, plus a fun ghost walk the night before and a visit to the Castle Museum and historic prison.

#York #FoodHistory #LeedsSymposium#GhostWalk #CulinaryHistory
April 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Some #historicrecipes are obscure, enigmatic, incomplete, or so poorly written they are near impossible to interpret. This one is scrambled eggs, but in 1547.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/07/06/s...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #Renaissance #earlymodern
Scrambled Eggs | culina vetus
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July 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM