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Mmm, Tastes Like Garum

Posted in Food and..., Writing, tagged , , , , , , on August 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I love food and I love history, so imagine my excitement when I ran across this article:

How recreating ancient recipes helps one food buff bring the past to life | CBC Radio

I explored the linked video channel here:

Tasting History with Max Miller – YouTube

The recipes include a lot of interesting food, like medieval mead, garum, pirate rations, and the fascinatingly named “Hardtack and Hellfire.” Some of these items are still familiar, others not so much. 

I am so down with this. 

Previously, I’ve mentioned Krista Ball’s What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank, on how to feed your fantasy adventurers, but seeing these recipes come to life takes historical food to another level.

Enjoy (or at least feel happy that we have more on tap these days than sweet potato coffee)!

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Photo by Bianca Berg on Unsplash

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Enjoy Responsibly

Posted in Likes, tagged , , , , , , on March 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »

If you have ever needed to write a ransom-style note* but the decline of printed news has you at a loss, worry no more!

Polona Typo has come to the rescue!

Like many libraries, the National Library of Poland has digitized many of its holdings. They also have an interface that allows you to convert text into images based on scanned letters from their collection.

Sure, there are lots of ransom note generators out there (maybe too many; what are people up to?) but I like mine with a bit of history.

The Polona Typo project, based on the new Polona API, makes it possible to type, share and print your own sentences using thousands of letters from the books, posters and maps created over more than six centuries. Enjoy!

Test it out, reload to get a whole new look or click on individual letters to re-roll one at a time. Download and enjoy (responsibly, of course!).

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Courtesy Polona Typo.

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* Not an actual ransom note, of course. That would be wrong.

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