Daily Medieval

Our teeth would no doubt be better off if this had never been discovered, but Pandora's box was opened long ago. Different species of su...

Besides sweet concoctions like dragges , medieval cooks prepared things like mincemeat  and apple pie . Some cook books survive from early o...

Yes, marshmallow. (Maybe Halloween has put me in mind of sweets.) Althaea officinalia (the "marsh mallow") is a perennial tha...

In a few parts of the world today, children are gorging on their haul of candy from trick-or-treating last night. The makers of candy out-do...