"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Dear Patrons of every level and tier, Blog followers and innocent bystanders, I promised I was going to start querying in January, and here I am: yesterday I've officially sent my first query to a prospect agent, which included: - the first twenty pages of the novel; -...
Hatmehit, also transliterated Hatmehyt because we have zero idea of how Ancient Egyptians pronounced anything, was a goddess associated with the city of Djedet in the Nile Delta. Her name means something along the lines of "the Foremost of a shoal", and uses the term...
Hatmehit, also transliterated Hatmehyt because we have zero idea of how Ancient Egyptians pronounced anything, was a goddess associated with the city of Djedet in the Nile Delta. Her name means something along the lines of "the Foremost of a shoal", and uses the term...
Tylwyth Teg (Middle Welsh for Fair Family) is the collective noun for mythological creatures known as the aes sídhe in Irish folklore. In other words: fairies. We are we featuring faerie folk in a regular contribution on creatures from the underground? Well, because the Tylwyth...
We're stepping out of Advent and straight into the Twelve Days of Christmas, so today I thought I'd do something different and special: instead of a recipe from the Middle-Ages, I'll give you a whole menu from Reinassance and, specifically, the menu Cristoforo da Messisbugo...
Ingredients: 1 kg of shrimps (it's better if they're from sweet water, but sea shrimps will do as well); 300 grams of white flour; 90 grams of lard; 1 egg; pinecone nuts; almonds; black pepper; cloves; fresh ginger; saffron; marjoram; salt. Recipe: Prepare the dough as we...
Ingredients (serves 4 people): a small seabass for each person (around 300 grams each); olive oil; white pepper; 4 small oranges (remember what we said about bitter oranges when we baked Anne Boleyn's favourite pie); 3 spoonfuls of rosewater. For the pastry: 300 grams of flour; ...
Ingredients (serves 4 people): 5 quinces; a glass of almond milk (you know the drill); a litre of beef stock; 30 grams of butter; a pinch of sugar; a pinch of ginger; powdered cinnamon. Recipe: Peel the quinces and mince them in cubes after removing the core....
Ingredients (serves 4 people): 400 grams of barley flour; a glass of almond milk (you know the drill); 50 grams of butter; half a litre of chicken stock; a pinch of white pepper; salt. Recipe: Melt the butter in a pan, warm the almond milk on the...
Ingredients (serves 6 people): 9 hard-boiled eggs; 20 grams of raisins; 100 grams of grated pecorino cheese; 50 grams of fresh pecorino cheese (you might want to use a younger one than the grated); a pinch of ground parsley; a pinch of fresh marjoram; a...
