Les Leftovers
sort of a food history blog
Sunday, September 29, 2013
The Yeast Paradox
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In bread history, this note from Pliny the Elder has a particular importance: "In Gaul and Spain, where they make a drink by steeping c...
Friday, September 20, 2013
The funereal snails
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On March 26, 1872, Emile Rivière discovered a complete skeleton in the grotto of Cavillon, near Menton. This was not the first prehistoric ...
Friday, September 13, 2013
The luxury of butter
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By the end of the Middle Ages, the Burgundian court was one of the most elegant in Europe. But the first Burgundians were among the Germani...
Friday, September 6, 2013
A soup for the Bishop of Tours
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A number of writers cite a brief passage from the work of Gregory de Tours, the Gallo-Roman bishop whose history of the Franks remains the p...
Friday, August 30, 2013
The water highways of Gaul
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Imagine a Frank riding about the countryside his people have just begun to rule. He sees a series of arches in the distance, stretching from...
Friday, August 23, 2013
The meat of the matter / The matter of meat
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Researching early medieval food presents one huge obstacle: there are virtually no period sources on the subject (late medieval food has a ...
It's... alive?
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Hmmmm..... So sometime back I started this blog as a place to put posts that didn't make it onto a mailing list. I soon left that list a...
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