Why were Wicklow Sundews harvested and brought to Viking Dublin?
My favourite fruit are Fraocháns, (or fraughans or frachans depending on how you choose yourself) which are the Irish name for bilberries or whortleberries (Vaccinium myrtillus)) and they will be ripe in July. I am very much looking forward to going to get some this year, and trying out a few food experiments. As I…
Teaching Cooking by Doing Cooking
I teach a class at Strawberry Raid (and indeed, have taught it at other camping events) most years. It’s about how to cook a meal in a camp kitchen, including lighting the fire, managing the fire, selecting a recipe from a text, interpreting it within the limits of what ingredients you can buy and what…
Arabic Food Over 300 Years and 1300 Kilometres
I’ve done a lot of work cooking Arabic food, and had to do very little research to get there, because Nawal Nasrallah has done an incredible amount in translating medieval Arabic cookery books. Two of these are Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens, which is a translation of a 10th century Baghdadi cookbook compiled by Ibn…
Strawberry Raid V, 2026
This isn’t so much an event report as an index post, from which I can link more posts as I make them. You can expect posts on: Thoughts on Camp Coordination Teaching Cooking by Doing Cooking The Medieval Poetic Forms Project Sestinas, with one I wrote at the event Being Present at Events International Visitors…
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