Beer making is an exercise in patience.  Rather like baking bread, there's a lot of waiting involved. Unlike bread, it's about waiti...

This is Figaro. He's not a special historical breed of cat or anything. He's pretty cool and I've had him a long time, but h...

The smallest of all the Livery Companies had to be the Worshipful Company of Cooks of London . Yet they did exist, so while the clay bread o...

Part One: History and Hubris  “ History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields w...

I apologize for my absence. I've been having a... thing. I don't believe in writer's block so it's not that, it's just.....

The other day on Facebook, I promised to update soon. I promised that I wasn't dead. And because fate has a warped sense of humor, then ...

"I bet you think you were born in the wrong era," she said. I smiled grimly and shrugged. I didn't want to point out to her t...