In mycological text after mycological text, in mushroom poisoning report after mushroom poisoning report we get the advice to use abstinece as the fool proof means of avoiding mushroom poisonong....
https://williamrubel.com/2024/03/16/teach-mushroom-identification-rather-than-preach-abstinence/
While this is obvioulsy a tandoor style oven from ancient Greece, I have not been able to find confirming archeological evidence for tandoor oven from Greek archeological sites. If you know of ev...
https://williamrubel.com/2024/03/15/greek-bread-baking-methods/
This is the first part of a two part project. First listen: React to what you hear This a translation project. You are translating musical ideas into prose. For your first listen, I just want you...
https://williamrubel.com/2024/02/26/listen-to-the-furies-invent-a-story/
Mushrooms species appropriate for this recipe: This recipe was intended for the commercial mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. Because the mushroom is minimally cooked, this recipe is only appropriate f...
https://williamrubel.com/2024/01/19/mushroom-stew-by-e-smith-circa-1730/
Join me in attempting to bake a pumpernickel that is black through-and-through. Please post your results in the comments, and also on my Facebook Group, Bread History and Practice. Note: Just aft...
https://williamrubel.com/2024/01/02/trying-for-an-historic-pumpernickel/
Gyromitra esculenta Fries, was originally Helvella esculenta Persoon. Up to World War II, the mushroom was considered edible, even excellent, although we note a whisp of caution creeping into th...
The following lovely video offers a classic preparation from Northern Europe. Based on my experience, I am guessing something in or near the Baltic Republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Fo...
https://williamrubel.com/2023/11/13/gyrometra-esculenta-delicious-edible/
One apparently common bread during the pharaonic period was a bread shaped in the form of an equilateral triangle and painted white. The example here is from the the downtown Egyptian Museum. Not...
https://williamrubel.com/2023/05/24/the-egyptian-triangle-bread/
Joy over the Inundation They tremble, that behold the Nile in full flood. The fields laugh and the river-banks are overflowed. The god’s offerings descend, the visage of men is bright, and the ...
https://williamrubel.com/2023/05/08/egyptian-text-the-inundation/
This is an important Egyptian bread. While it is rarely reproduced. As far as I am aware, this is the only surviving Egyptian bread whose entire surface is marked with a stamped pattern. I would ...
https://williamrubel.com/2023/04/13/a-rare-egyptian-stamped-bread/