Links to Other Places

These are links to some other places in the Internet which may be of interest. Please remember that these are other people's sites, so we can take neither credit nor blame for the information you find there.

Sites about Spices

Spicing up food and life. Gernot Katzer, a chemist in Graz, Austria, has collected wonderfully detailed information on the spices, including botanical and alternate names.
Herbs & Spices. General alphabetic coverage, with some history. Heavily under construction.
Rialto Archive - Info on Spices. A collection of messages posted on various newsgroups over several years past.

Sites about Historical Cookery

Cariadoc's Miscellany. A large collection of medieval and renaissance recipes from original sources, as well as various articles on other subjects.
Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage. A collection of links to a wide range of resources.
Food History Café. A bulletin board of questions and answers about historical food.
A Finnish Site (but in English). A Finnish medievalist's collection of links to resources on ancient and medieval cookery and brewing.
Cookery Links--Kindom of Atlantia A very nice set of links to sites about pre-1600 food, including several on-line cookbooks.
The Olde Cookery Book. Ambitious project collecting pre-1900 recipes. Includes information on sources, ingredients, etc.
try the Usenet newsgroup rec.food.historic.

Sites about Period Living

Recreating History. Information and sample articles from a bimonthly magazine for historical reenactors.
Regia Anglorum. Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British living history, research and reenactment of the 10th/11th centuries.
The Conquest Home Page. Group recreating the Anglo-Norman period of English history.
The English Civil War Society. 17th century reenactment group.
Tom Apple's Living History Website. Links to American 18th and 19th century reenactment groups and events.
try the Usenet newsgroups alt.history.living and soc.history.living.

Sites about the Society for Creative Anachronism

The Society for Creative Anachronism. Official SCA web site.
"Ye Lion's Goblet Taverne". A large collection of links of SCA interest.
try the Usenet newsgroup rec.org.sca ("the Rialto")

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