@medievalmonk.bsky.social
Medieval manuscripts, languages & cultures. I write about & cook medieval food @ modernmedievalcuisine.com; create public history content for heritage professionals & collaborate with creatives: https://www.themedievalmonk.com/projects--publications.html
A photo of a bald eagle soaring in a partially cloudy sky.
My area has a few nesting bald eagles, but we tend to have more eagles during the winter.
Here's one of my favorite eagle in flight photographs.
Full-res preview and prints here: laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/bal...
📷 #birds #wildlife #nature
Apple Cinnamon Tear & Share. Maybe make one to share over a chat with a neighbour or friend. Find the recipe and a bite-sized history now at my website www.myhistoricaltable.com
By @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social
This dragonfly is a Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens). It was preening its tarsus as it rested on a branch.
My Portfolio:
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#naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #photography #dragonflies #insects
My Baked Blueberry Basque Cheesecake. Over on my website www.myhistoricaltable.com I have a bite-size history of this wonderful cake. Have a little look-see if you like food history. Run by me @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Join me at my table ✌️🫶
#foodsky #skystorian
Brilliant shot!
17.11.2025 19:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Most obliging! 😆
17.11.2025 19:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lovely bird. Had a female just outside our holiday home a few days ago. She sat on the top of a young palm tree for quite a few minutes. Could see all her lovely feathers through my binoculars. 😍
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Thessaloniki: A Food Lovers Paradise
Bougatsa, bouyourdi, roast red peppers, fried cheese, patsas, soutzoukakia, leek keftedes...So many delicious dishes...check this lovely interview with Meni:
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#food #podcast #thessaloniki #greekfood #traditionalfood
Amazing cook!
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A mini-🧵 & episode: (1/2)
Lynceus of Samos, a Greek gastronomic author of circa 300 BCE, and pupil of Theophrastus in his letter to Diagoras included an extended comparison of Rhodian with Athenian culinary delicacies. [...]
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Won't be able to join you for this. Moving house that day. Shame.
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Spotted Richard III Society repeating the myth that rude carvings in churches were put there by unpaid masons. Instead they relate to a form of spirituality called negative mysticism: achieving salvation by resistance to temptation. More here:
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I'm back with a winter season of online talks, starting with Dating Ancient Buildings.
Join us on Tue 25 Nov to learn how to use archives, archaeology & dendrochronology to understand the age of historic buildings.
Booking is now open, here...
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For clarification, just egg white as the liquid in the batter.
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OK. 6/10. 😄 But was my first experiment w/ England's earliest recipe for crêpes, late 1200s, written in Anglo-Norman (French). No milk, no egg yolk in the batter. I must make the batter thinner. Difficult to manoeuvre in the pan, which btw was probably deeper than a frying pan.
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This is well worth reading. Thoughtful, and offers good evidence. Funny, too. 🤣 I must be one of the naughty ones alluded to in the article.
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Well, what a strange and wonderful survival this is…a turf maze dating from 1660! 🤩
It sits in the middle of the very lovely village of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, and was made by William Sparrow, a royalist, to commemorate the restoration of Charles II.
I don't usually make champagne cocktails -- just drink the champagne! -- but we had a chilled, gifted bottle of Californian sparkling brut (good substitute), and sugar cubes, Angostura bitters, and cheapo brandy, so made a couple to celebrate exchange of contracts on our new home. Not half bad! 😆
07.11.2025 22:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tea cups. One for smelling one for drinking the tea.
07.11.2025 04:11 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Better than fireworks.
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Whisky sour. I like to make a few cocktails on holiday.
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FREE recipes during November: Chykens in Hocche (chicken, stuffed w/ garlic, grapes, herbs, poached in spiced broth); Ryse of Fleysche (saffron rice).
From Richard II's cookery book.
Great food for autumn (or indeed spring, if you're in the Southern hemisphere)
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FREE recipes during November: Chykens in Hocche (chicken, stuffed w/ garlic, grapes, herbs, poached in spiced broth); Ryse of Fleysche (saffron rice).
From Richard II's cookery book.
Great food for autumn (or indeed spring, if you're in the Southern hemisphere)
buymeacoffee.com/MonksMMC/e/4...
The usurpation of Richard II paves the way for the terrible conflict of the Wars of the Roses and dynastic struggles that shatter the fifteenth century. buff.ly/2xMXJTW? / #Free on #KindleUnlimited
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Life in Eleventh Century Britain: The Fyrd and the Housecarls: Before the Normans brought over their own version of feudalism, the Anglo-Saxons had a different way of calling up an army in need of defense. buff.ly/444Sfxy
31.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Great article, beautifully and carefully written. Thanks for sharing. I must say it's very sad when outsiders to a community are blind to the obvious damage caused by luxury "development". Stupidity and elitism.
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The paywall vanishes with this "gift" link to my story, published last week in the @nytimes.com, about a place prized for its biodiversity where an international airport is under illegal construction and Donald Trump's son-in-law plans to build a luxury resort.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
The comments are hilarious! Made my morning.
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