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Celebrating New Year in the Soviet Union
One of the signs of getting older is when the decade of your childhood is designated as “historic.” Since I grew up in a country that no longer...
Eighty Excellent Online Historical Collections
Happy International Archives Day! In the spirit of Fifty Fabulous Online Library Historical Collections, Sixty Sensational Online Historical Archive...
8 Links to Food and Eating in Literature
Food and adequate nutrition are not only essential to all life, but make for excellent world building in historical fiction, and lots of tension....
Mulled Wine and Cookie Day
How long does it take for something to become a tradition? For us, it’s about seven years, since that’s how long we’ve been doing Cookie Day. On the...
The Best Turkey Stuffing Ever
While many foods can be stuffed, and a variety of ingredients used, at the holidays we stuff turkey with bread and spices. Beyond that, the...
Holiday Food Traditions… (with recipes)
Living alone with minimal family, one tends to create one’s own traditions, but in my case, a few food traditions have emerged along the way that...
Holiday Gift & Beverage Guides
THE DECEMBER SOLSTICE, when the northern hemisphere is dark and cold – what could be better than a holiday full of light and good cheer? A lit and...
Holiday Beverages Then and Now
Holiday Beverages To eat and drink is life itself. Breaking bread together is a timeless tradition globally, even among horses! Today I’m writing...
Food, Glorious Food : a Taste of History
In historical fiction, sex may be seductive, combat thrilling, but food is always a draw: from peasant staples to sumptuous feasts. Since people...
A Pumpkin Bread Tradition
PUMPKIN BREAD COMBINE: 2 ½ CUPS BROWN SUGAR 1 CUP OIL 2/3 CUP WATER 4 EGGS 2 CUPS PUMPKIN (FRESH COOKED AND MASHED OR CANNED) SIFT AND ADD: ½ TSP...
Soup’s on; let’s share!
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before...three hungry and weary travellers arrive in a strange, shuttered village. The travellers have no money for...
The Roll That Dared to Be a Star
Bread has been a staple food since Neolithic times. They ate unleavened bread until yeast was used in Egypt about 4000 BC. From then until the...
Strange Bread Fellows – Pumpkin + Peanut Butter
Open my cookbook cupboard with caution. If you move too quickly, you’ll be deluged with recipe clippings. Because though I have a good many...
The Women Who Fed A Continent
cross-cut of a Mandan/Hidatsa food cache pit that was dug out below their homes. The Three Sisters are represented here: Corn, Beans, and Squash. We...
Cooking with Too Much Heart: Me and Paul Hollywood
A cookbook can be both an impersonal tome and an intimate peek into a family...
What are the Holidays without Chocolate?
Can you imagine a holiday table filled with desserts and not one having chocolate as an ingredient? Me neither. Add yet for centuries, my ancestors...
Holiday Cooking Traditions
Holidays are where most of my memories over the years were created. The family events create traditions across generations, but the anchor of all...
Announcing…Historical Holiday Dessert Recipes!
Every week for the past twelve months, we PLW authors have been sharing our writing, reading, and life-in-general journeys here on our blog. From...
At Mother’s Table
From the time I was a small girl, the smell of turkey roasting in the oven brought with it a strong sense of tradition, which is very important to...
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