Introducing the UG series
By Laurence Totelin For the last five years, the Recipes Project has been running an annual September Teaching series. That series has proven extremely successful, and the blog is now a mine of...
View ArticleTales from the Archives: Lizards and Lettuces: Greek and Roman Recipes for...
The Recipes Project is now six years old, and that means we host a lot of content! We now have over 700 posts in our archives. (And thank you to our contributors for sharing such a wealth of knowledge...
View ArticleNit Picking the Greek and Roman Way
By Laurence Totelin One of the ‘joys’ of parenthood is dealing with lice and nits. In the UK, the NHS helpfully states that ‘there’s nothing you can do to prevent head lice.’ You can only prevent them...
View ArticleSmelling of Roses in Ancient Rome
By Laurence Totelin as part of the perfume series The painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) had a knack for depicting the — sometimes imaginary — luxurious excesses of the Romans. In The Roses of...
View ArticleTales from the Archives: Nit Picking the Greek and Roman Way
Here in the UK, school has recently started. For parents of young children, this brings the annual scratch-fest of lice. I haven’t yet found any, but I’ve already had at least two nightmares involving...
View ArticleRevisiting Laurence Totelin’s Fevers and the Dog Star in Antiquity
Well, the Dog Days of summer are upon us once again…To help us cope with the heat, we revisit Laurence Totelin’s wonderful post from 2018. In “Fevers and the Dog Star in Antiquity”, Laurence tells us...
View ArticleInterview with the Editors: The Cultural History of Medicine
By Elaine Leong, Lisa Smith and Laurence Totelin The Cultural History of Medicine, a six-volume collection under the direction of Roger Cooter, was published in April 2021 by Bloomsbury. The editors of...
View ArticleRemembering Terry Turner (1929-2019): Pharmaceutical History Collector...
By Laurence Totelin, with input from Briony Hudson A few years ago, my colleagues Heather Trickey (social sciences), Julia Sanders (midwifery) and I decided to put together a small exhibition on the...
View ArticleCooking up the Romans: Mrs Beeton’s Antiquity
By Laurence Totelin Paragraph 285 of the 1861 edition of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management is a recipe for baked red mullet with a sauce of anchovies, sherry and cayenne. As is usual in the...
View ArticleAround the Table: Celebrating Our Contributors
With the advent of the new year, two members of our editorial team have stepped down from their positions: Recipes Project co-creator Lisa Smith and longtime contributor-and-editor Laurence Totelin....
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