Roasted Kale
Roasted Kale: One of the Tastiest Kale Recipes You’ll Ever Find. Or, well, not. I have a subscription to a CSA that brings me tasty, mostly, veggies every week. Part of the reason the veggies are tasty is that I tell them which ones I want. Unfortunately, what with 12th night, last weekend I forgot [...]
Julia Child Interview
Julia Child Interview – Eating Healthy and Smart – Quotes about Diets – Esquire. I love Julia Child. I wish she wasn’t gone, as she’s definitely on the list of “people I’d love to have a dinner party with”. As long as I wasn’t cooking, anyway, as that’d be WAY too much pressure.
Black and Gold Houppelande
Black and Gold Houppelande, circa 1420 The goal for this gown was to make something fun and dramatic for Atlantia’s Kingdom 12th Night (2007). This gown is not based on any specific illumination; elements are taken from several roughly contemporaneous images but I can’t say for sure they would have been combined this way. The [...]
The Joys and Woes of Hyperfocus?
So I mentioned at the Kappellenberg meeting that we were re-designing Erminespot… this process was expected to take something like a week. Well… I got interested. Which means it’s mostly up now. While most of the content hasn’t changed from the previous Erminespot, and the gallery is still a bit… fugly, there are a few [...]
Purple Gown – Tacuinum Sanitatis
Dress in the Italian Style What, Where, When: This dress is based on an image from the manuscript BNF Latine 1673[1], a Tacuinum Sanitatis that was copied and illustrated in Milan around 1390-1400. It is an overgown, intended to be worn over a second, supportive undergown with long sleeves. [...]
Persona Pentathlon – 2007
Because I enjoy trying new things, my favorite yearly competition is Atlantia’s Persona Pentathlon. The rules are simple – 5 items in at least 3 categories, all related to a specific persona – but the scope of putting together that many items for a single event makes it a challenge. In 2007, my entry was [...]
Redacting Period Recipes
REDACTING PERIOD RECIPES: What do we mean by “redaction?” From the Oxford English Dictionary 1st edition in 2 volumes, vol 2, pg 293: Redact – past participle 1. Brought together in a written form (1432) 2. Brought or reduced into (in), to a state, condition, etc, or under one’s power (1432) 3. Of material things: [...]
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