Historical Research

Investigations into topics that interest me — drawn from primary sources if possible, and personal experience if risible.

• The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight OpenedKenelm Digby: The Closet Opened recipes for mead, metheglin, cookery, & preserving
• The Earliest Printed Book on Wine Arnald of Villanova’s thirteenth-century treatise
• Devonshire Pickled Apples a West Country preserving tradition
• The Peanut from Inca burial jars to European tables
• Cauim a fermented beverage of the Brazilian interior