Author – Speaker – Historian

Featured Books

Where food, history and culture meet. Essays, books, and talks that connect our kitchen to living heritage

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Featured Books

Rediscovering remedies and the gardens that kept them alive.

Exploring the foodways, the chefs, and the unique contributions of America’s culinary capital.

Award-winning guide to the paper trails of history. How Collectables Tell the Story of Food.

Homestyle recipes using heirloom vegetables

Exploring three centuries of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine 

Stories of witchcraft, magic, and the supernatural

The story of medieval Polish cuisine as retold by the late Countess Maria Dembinska, an authority on Old Polish Culture.

Exploring the wines of medieval Cyprus and their Byzantine origins.

Exploring the 1400s botanical collections of a Cypriot king.

Cooking with heritage vegetables season to season.

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