Medieval History
Living every moment to the hilt, the characteristic that most describes Alan Coxon is his intense desire to make the past come alive on everybody?s food plate. His passion for how our past has shaped our food preferences, pushed cultures into inventing and experimenting with ingredients and of the history of food ingredients in itself is immense. He is tirelessly excited about it.
This passion is what led him to reinvent a classic and historically valuable recipe from Medieval England, which he has calls the Ale-Gar, putting him in the rare league of chefs who have invented food products of great value. A versatile and uniquely flavoured form of vinegar, to put it very broadly, Ale-Gar can be put to a variety of uses as well-known chefs in many restaurants in the West are attesting to.
Click here to read this article from Gulf News
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Medieval History
Celebrity chef reinvents a long-lost Medieval recipe
Living every moment to the hilt, the characteristic that most describes Alan Coxon is his intense desire to make the past come alive on everybody?s food plate. His passion for how our past has shaped our food preferences, pushed cultures into inventing and experimenting with ingredients and of the history of food ingredients in itself is immense. He is tirelessly excited about it.
This passion is what led him to reinvent a classic and historically valuable recipe from Medieval England, which he has calls the Ale-Gar, putting him in the rare league of chefs who have invented food products of great value. A versatile and uniquely flavoured form of vinegar, to put it very broadly, Ale-Gar can be put to a variety of uses as well-known chefs in many restaurants in the West are attesting to.
Click here to read this article from Gulf News
- The Medieval Cookbook And The Classical Cookbook Published In Revised Editions
The Getty Museum and British Museum have published two cookbooks for those wanting to try recipes dating back to the Middle Ages or ancient times. The Medieval Cookbook, by food hisorian Maggie Black offers collection of medieval recipes, but a social...
- At Mit, Dine Like A 14th-century Nobleman
MIT doesn?t seem like a place where you can dine on food from the Middle Ages. But this month, you could prepare, cook, and eat like a 14th-century nobleman. For over a decade, during the Independent Activities Period between semesters, Massachusetts...
- Miracle Cures From The Age Of Hippocrates
From simple syrups, eye drops, balms and pills to suppositories combining a multitude of ingredients, pharmaceutics has been a precision science since antiquity. Used through the ages to cure a vast variety of ailments and diseases, pharmaceutics has...
- Medieval Feast At Durham University
A variety of authentic medieval foods will be served at a sold-out banquet at Durham University on March 9th. Organised by university?s Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, it will feature food and drink from the Middle Ages and show how they...
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To piggyback on Matthew's previous blog, sign the petition. And, as a way to continue of the theme of the importance of the humanities, I thought I would comment on this thoughtful commentary from Easily Distracted (which I picked up from The Cranky...