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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 1h

I am back from a weekend of cooking a historically inspired feast on the theme of the eighteenth-century Grand Tour, and it was pretty great. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/10/04/a... #earlymodern #foodhistory

Cheese tartlets based on a recipe in Maria Sophia Schellhammer's wohl-unterwiesene Köchin. The tartlets are arranged on rectanglar white serving platters with a garnish of mache, candied pears, and pickled walnuts.

Pumpkin soup based on a recipe in La Varenne's Cuisinier Francois. the photo shows a row of small pottery bowls filled with the soup, each one decorated with a single sage leaf.

Roast beef. The beef slices are arranged on rectangular white serving platters, resting on slices of braised fennel and topped with marrow toast. Each platter also contains one small white cup of sauce royale.

A course entirely based on Latini's Scalco Moderno: The same white serving platters now hold a serving of breaded, fried chicken pieces, pasta boiled in milk with parmeggiano, and a vegetable puree. They are accompanied by Latini's famous 'Spanish sauce' of cooked, reduced tomato.
Yes, that is chicken nuggets with mac'n'cheese and ketchup. It's an inside joke.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 21h

Today is Tridi the 13th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate winter squash. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Winter squash.

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RedKiteNRW @rotmilanmuenster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Annalena Baerbock, Ricarda Lang, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, Elif #Eralp - diese Hexenjagden von CDU & CSU haben System! Es sind gezielte misogyne Kampagnen alter weißer Männer, die Angst davor haben, das selbstbewusste junge Frauen es besser machen könnten. 😕

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Frauke Maren @planetenherz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dass kinderlose Frauen mit Zeit und Ressourcen diejenigen sind, die die Care Arbeit für literally every-fucking-one else machen, wird natürlich auch nicht mitgedacht. Aber klar, ich zahl alle Ausgaben die Andere durch zwei teilen alleine und jetzt auch noch mehr Sozialabgaben, why not, ich habs ja🙄

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 01/10/2026

Niels made a new cartoon! www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 01/10/2026

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Potatoes.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grapenbraden is a Low German unicorn hunt, a beloved dish with no surviving recipe. Hafen braten means the same thing in High German, and there are a few texts. The rest is hope, and a decent onion sauce. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/30/f... #foodhistory #medievalsky

Grapen - a round, three-legged ceramic cooking pot with a long handle. Pots like these, made of ceramic or, more expensively, bronze, were widely used in North Germany. They were stood in the embers to produce a slow, constant heat.

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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Die Geschwindigkeit, mit der die Diskussion um Antisemitismus jetzt in offene Linkenfeindlichkeit umschlägt, ist genau das, was gemeint ist, wenn von Instrumentalisierung von Antisemitismus die Rede ist. Nein, es geht hier nicht um die Juden, die sind bloß vorgeschoben. Peak Alman Gedächtnistheater.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read a #medievalsky recipe for deep-fried, battered custard and you understand the deep heritage of State Fair snacks. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/27/f... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #fried

A 1491 woodcut showing a woman milking a cow. The woman, wearing a red dress and headscarf, is seated behind the standing cow, with one hand on the animal's hindquarters and the other on the udder. A wooden pail full of milk is shown standing underneath the cow, a second one further forward.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 25/09/2026

Today is Quintidi the 5th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate horses. #JacobinDay See today's page

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How potato pancakes fell victim to austerity in the first World War, and how some pissed-off workers foiled a Putsch in 1920 because of things like that. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/25/p... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #eattherich #unionstrong

Photo of a demonstration in 1920, Berlin, exact date and location unknown. The demonstrators have shown up in formal clothing and brought a sign hanging the leaders of the coup, Kapp and von Lüttwitz, in effigy. The writing at the bottom reads "A quarter million participants". We cannot confirm the exact number, but the demonstrations were very large.

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Volkmar Wölk @volkmarwoelk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So kann man übrigens auch auf die Wahlen vom Sonntag reagieren: „Elif Eralp und Manuela Schwesig, zwei Bollwerke gegen die extreme Rechte“. Geht aber offenbar nur in Frankreich, nicht in Deutschland.

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Allemagne : Elif Eralp et Manuela Schwesig, deux remparts face à l’extrême droite

Les deux candidates de Die Linke et du SPD ont atteint des scores inattendus à Berlin et en Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale. Des succès obtenus grâce à des campagnes de terrain centrées sur leur pe...

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is a well known fact that bombing places has always ensured stability and quickly ensured inexpensive victories.

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So, there is a recipe for what is pretty clearly #Baumkuchen from around 1500, and I nearly missed it because it is named like a roast custard. Naming stuff is hard... www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/21/b... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky #baking

Modern technique of making Baumkuchen: The photograph shows an outdoor gas grill with a spit set up to rotate automatically in front and a batter pan underneath. A person standing outside the picture with only the hands visible is pouring batter over the rotating spit, building up layers.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stellt Euch vor, es würde in Reaktion auf die Berlin-Wahl in den nächsten Wochen bundesweit intensiv über die Frage gestritten werden, was man gegen horrende Mietpreise in Großstädten tun kann. Thema in allen Talkshows, Task-Force auf Bundes- & Landesebene. Volles Programm. Das wär doch mal was.

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Lia van Bekhoven @liavanbekhoven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Uit de Financial Times. En wat voor VK geldt, gaat ook op voor NL. #Musk #staatvijandig

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A recipe for fish in #aspic, and some thoughts on why Middle German insists on using the same words for jellies and bread sauces. Because of course it does. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/19/f... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky

An illumination from a tacuinum Sanitatis manuscript from the late fourteenth century. It shows two men standing in a boat on a river, pulling in a large net filled with fish. A hut on the far bank awaits them processing their catch, a large vat in front ready to hold the live fish. Stylised forest fills the background.

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Kratzbürste @kratzdiebuerste.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Huch! Als ich das letzte Mal auf meine Geburtsurkunde gekuckt habe, stand da sowohl bei mir als auch bei beiden Elternteilen "deutsch". Aber für das Kanzler*innenersatzprodukt zweiter Wahl bin ich offenbar Ausländerin.

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is going to be a spy novel in a few decades.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hope this has the same effect that Trump trying to squash Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico had: Bring attention to it and then release it to YouTube where it will get a *much* bigger audience.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Still more medieval and early modern recipes for filling cooked eggs back into their shells. These are called 'kroseier' and the name is not the oddest thing about them. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/17/k... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky

Renaissance painting showing a girl in a red dress seated at a table in front of a large basket filled with white eggs. One egg is shown broken open on the table surface, a chicken seated beside it.

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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 17/09/2026

Wegen der Wahl am Sonntag, ich weiß, dass Ihr das nicht gerne hört, aber dennoch: Eure Stimmen für Volt, Piraten, Tierschutz, Humanisten, die Partei, Urbane uswusf. sind alle für die Tonne. Sie zählen nicht. Doof, aber ist so. Für ein progressives Berlin wählt bitte Grüne oder Linke!

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blushy @blushy.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

„Denn Deutschland mietet sich wesentlich ärmer, als es sich arm tankt. Die hohen Mieten sind hierzulande der zentrale Treiber für den realen Wohlstandsverlust, der seit Jahrzehnten vonstattengeht, und für eine stetig wachsende Vermögensungleichheit.“

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Debatte um Spritpreise: Deutschland mietet sich arm

Bei hohen Spritpreisen wird die Politik sofort aktiv. Doch bei den hohen Mieten wäre ein entschiedenes Vorgehen viel, viel wichtiger.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 16/09/2026

Warum verbreiten sich Hass und Lügen so sehr? Weil sehr sehr viel Geld fließt, damit das passiert. @laschyk.volksverpetzer.de argumentiert in diesem deep dive für eine auf den ersten Blick vielleicht ungewöhnliche Lösung gegen Fake News. youtu.be/nMa0L-wHpDs

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Das effektivste Mittel gegen Fake News wäre eine Vermögenssteuer

YouTube video by Volksverpetzer

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 15/09/2026

Today is Décadi the 30th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate the pack basket. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a the Pack Basket.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When #MaritimeHistory meets #TextileHistory Just released this week! Lots of good technical details on original and reconstructed sails

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To follow up the recipe for roasted eggs in their shells: There are many parallels. Some are very elaborate indeed. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/15/f... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky

Open eggshells with a spicy filling ready for cooking. These hold uncooked egg rather than the chopped scramble the recipes in this post envision.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 14/09/2026

Today is Nonidi the 29th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate the sweet chestnut. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a the Sweet Chestnut.

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radkolumne @radkolumne.de · 14/09/2026

Kumpel war in der Schweiz. "Wenn da steht, dass der Zug um 16:24 fährt, dann fährt der um 16:24." Ich kann es immer noch nicht fassen.

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 13/09/2026

Ich habe Pizza gemacht, und ein Foto meines Pizzasteins in ChatGPT hochgeladen. Jetzt diskutieren wir intensiv über die künstlerische, formale und politische Tragweite dieses zweifellos bedeutungsvollen Bildes, und mein Respekt für AI sinkt minütlich.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 13/09/2026

Today is Octidi the 28th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate corn. #JacobinDay See today's page

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So, you carefully open the eggs at the tip, cook the content, spice it, fill it back into the shells, stick them on a skewer and roast them. And you add something that can't really mean what it says. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/13/a... #foodhistory #medievalsky #culinaryhistory

Illumination from a Tacuinum Sanitatis manuscript, late fourteenth century, illustrating eggs. A woman carrying a basket of eggs is shown walking away from an indoor chicken coop. We can see holes drilled into the wooden door to admit air and wooden roosts for the birds. Two chickens are in the picture. On the right, a door opens into a garden where a child is waiting.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 12/09/2026

Today is Septidi the 27th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate goldenrod. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Goldenrod.

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Donna Martina @donnamartina.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️THIS❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️♥️

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not quite. Correcting written homework would become so much easier.

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today from Solothurn S 392: How to fill a capon with its own innards (and plenty of spices). Because sometimes medieval cooking is that cliché. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/12/r... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky

Sixteenth-century painting of a cook. Improbably elaborately dressed, she is standing in the kitchen holding an iron spit in her left while readying a large bird to join one already impaled with her right. A large piece of beef and a bowl of lemons flank her on either side, indicating this is a rich household. In the background, a doorway opens the view of a Biblical scene that provides the ostensible reason for creating the painting.

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As of today, the translation of Solothurn S 392 is finished. What shall I do next? Ideas? Wishes?

First page of the source manuscript Solothurn S 392: A yellowed, aged paper page damaged at the bottom. At the centre, an elaborate initial "I" and a column of text in a scribal hand with the top line in red capital letters. The text is surrounded on the left and bottom margins by floral ornaments.

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culina vetus (Volker Bach) @culinavetus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Marinading roasts in wine and spices looks like it has a long tradition. I think the Forme of Cury does it best, because garlic. www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/11/w... #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky

Illumination from the Hausbuch der Mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung, Nuremberg 1527. The picture shows an elderly man in a kitchen. He is dressed in a long, blue tunic and black hood, wearing an apron and standing in front of a masonry hearth. A fire is burning on the platform in front of him with several pots standing near or in it. Metal frying pans on a rack line the back wall.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 08/09/2026

Today is Tridi the 23rd of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate hops. #JacobinDay See today's page

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