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culina vetus (Volker Bach)
@culinavetus.bsky.social
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Food history enthusiast and translator of old recipes
My stuff is on culina-vetus.de and in a number of books
Old school leftist - I like food so much I think everyone should have it.
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culinavetus.bsky.social
Today, a set of recipes for cooking lungs and liver in spicy sauces. #Earlymodern German had no word for #offal, but some meats were less equal than others.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/26/l...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #organmeat
Frontispiece of the first (1547) edition of Balthasar Staindl's Künstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch held at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek. The image shows a woodcut of a richly equipped and busy kitchen. The master cook is standing to the left of the large masonry hearth, tasting the contents of a large cookpot stood next to the fire while a cauldron is suspended above it. Two men in the background seem to be addressing him. In the right foreground, another man is cutting meat on a work surface set up atop a wooden trough on trestles. Carcasses and a large sausage are shown suspended on the wall in the background. Everything about this image - the size, the range of equipment, the exclusively male staff, the amounts of meat on display - signals wealth. This is the kind of kitchen you would expect to find in the house of a rich burgher or landed nobleman. The motif recurs in many German cookbooks of the fifteenth and sixteenth century.
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Kann man eigentlich irgendwo eine Liste der Mitglieder dieses Verbandes einsehen? Ich würde gerne mein Einkaufsverhalten anpassen.
katjadiehl.bsky.social Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 1d
Fritz Cola stabil!
vielen Dank für Deine Nachricht. fritz-kola ist seit seiner Gründung 2003 zu einem mittelständischen Unternehmen herangewachsen. Der regelmäßige Austausch in Wirtschaftsverbänden ist für uns ein sinnvoller Rahmen, um Kräfte zu bündeln, Perspektiven abzugleichen und Entwicklungen konstruktiv zu diskutieren. Dazu gehörte bislang auch unsere Mitgliedschaft im Verband Die Familienunternehmer e.V. Die Entscheidung der Verbandsführung, die bisherige Distanz gegenüber der AfD aufzugeben, steht nicht im Einklang mit den Grundsätzen, die fritz-kola als Unternehmen vertritt. Eine offene, demokratische Gesellschaft bildet für uns die Grundlage wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Handelns. Vor diesem Hintergrund haben wir unsere Mitgliedschaft im Verband beendet. Vieleviele Grüße
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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waldlaeuferin.bsky.social
„Die Merkel hat das Normalste der Welt gesagt. Sie hat gesagt: "Wir schaffen das!" Selbstverständlich in einer reichen Gesellschaft. Sie hat gesagt, die können wir doch nicht so stehen lassen, die Leute, wir schaffer das. Hat einer Gesellschaft, die kurz vorm Verzagen ist, Mut zugesprochen. Das ist der humanistische Minimalkonsens. Und alle so: "Nööö!" Sie muss auch gedacht haben: "Was hab' ich eigentlich so'n bräsiges Volk am Arsch! Seit 2000 Jahren treffen sich hier die Christen jeden Sonntag und lesen den barmherzigen Samariter und beim ersten Stresstest rennt man zu den Faschisten? Das kann doch wohl nicht wahr sein!" HAGEN RETHER Disrndarfr @garitafrancesco
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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wemeze.bsky.social
»Man muss den Teufel töten, solange er klein ist. Auf Deutsch würde man sagen: "Wehret den Anfängen." Die Tatsache, dass die NSDAP 1930 nur auf 18,3 Prozent kam, und 82% noch keine Nazis waren, hätte die Deutschen nicht beruhigen dürfen!« Moshe Zimmermann https://bsky.app/profile/politicalbeauty.bsky.social/post/3m6gwsv3kr22d
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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jorisluyendijk.bsky.social
We need to talk about this A LOT in Europe. Such a shocking illustration of how we are getting colonized by the Americans. Let's spread this widely so it helps galvanize public opinion.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Carrie Fisher was the blueprint.
Protect your people. Call out the predators.
#RESIST
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Happy Birthday to the legendary Billy Connolly who turns 83 today, and who from a young age realised the importance of #Libraries.

'When I was an unhappy little boy, going to the library changed my life. It may even have saved it.'

Happy Birthday Big Yin. 🎉🎂🌟❤️
The book Made in Scotland by Billy Connolly A quote from Billy Connolly. 'But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips.'
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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annmemmott.bsky.social
Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
mikeyearworth.bsky.social Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 4d
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”

www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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maks23.bsky.social
🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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wemeze.bsky.social
»Die Stadtbild-Äußerung ist absolut missglückt. Es wäre auch hilfreich, wenn der Bundeskanzler irgendwo sagen würde, dass das Beispiel so missglückt war. Den Eindruck zu erwecken, die Probleme seien gelöst, wenn alle Menschen abgeschoben würden, die abgeschoben werden müssten, halte ich für falsch und gefährlich. Wir dürfen nicht zulassen, dass Politiker sagen: ›Wir haben drei Probleme in Deutschland: Migration, Migration, Migration.‹ Oder: ›Die Mutter aller Probleme: Migration.‹ So etwas gießt Öl ins Feuer. Das ist dummes Zeug. Wir dürfen Menschen, die zu uns kommen, nicht immer nur problematisieren als Fälle für Kriminalität oder soziale Sicherungssysteme. Wir dürfen sie nicht ignorieren, sondern wir müssen sie gewinnen für unsere freiwilligen Feuerwehren, für unsere Parteien, für unsere Verfassung, für unsere Wirtschaft, für unser Land.« https://www.presseportal.de/pm/58964/6164324?utm_source=chatgpt.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Winter has come. I finished a cloak, got a beautiful new hat, and translated two 16th-century #gingerbread recipes.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/23/l...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #medievalsky #historicdress #hat
A photo of a cloak and hat laid out on an outdoor table covered in frost. The hat is green and adorned with a feather and two ribbons. It is a modernised copy of the medieval Lappvattnet hat found in Sweden made by a Belgian artisan, Fáel the Nomad Hatter (https://www.instagram.com/fael.nomadhatter/) The cloak is modern, an upcycled piece made from old civil defense blankets and hospital bedsheets. It is dark grey, lined with off-white cotton fabric, and its front placket is embroidered with stylised dandelion leaves.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
When I go to France next year, I should get some new glasses as well.
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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militarynewsua.bsky.social
❗️RETWEET if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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ftummescheit.bsky.social
Das beschreibt die Situation ganz hervorragend!

Bekommt es endlich in eure Köpfe!

Die USA unter Krasnov / Trump sind unser von Russland gesteuerter Feind!
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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volkerquaschning.bsky.social
Europa hat nur gut 1 % der weltweiten #Erdgasvorrätee – das ist eine enorme Abhängigkeit! Die #USA und #Katar nutzen das als Druckmittel. Setzt auf #Wärmepumpee und #Elektromobilitätt 🚗🔥 Sonst zahlen wir den Preis.
Kuchengrafik über die weltweiten Erdgasreserven. Europa verfügt über 1%, USA über 8%, Russland über 22% und der Nahe Osten über 39%
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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hildur.bsky.social
Why yes, @microsoft.com, I will HAPPILY provide you feedback on how exactly I feel about Word right now.
Screenshot of Microsoft asking for feedback on Word where I wrote: One of the worst times I had this year was spending DAYS trying to turn off that horrible, awful AI, copilot. I am a writer, I have spent years honing my craft, and it is frankly offensive to offer to rewrite what I just wrote with a stupid machine. I almost stopped using Word until I FINALLY found a way to turn it off. I don't want to use AI and you still keep trying to ram it down my throat and I hate it.
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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stefanhanss.bsky.social
NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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farbijan.bsky.social
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
Black and white comic with stick figures Panel 1: Three stick figures that can only be told apart by their hair. Megan (short dark hair) walks in walks in from the left, looking down at her phone, Cueball (no hair) and Ponytail (light-haired ponytail) are standing next to each other. Megan: Wow - according to the internet, we don't know the true name of the bear. Cueball: What? Panel 2: Gretchen McCulloch, drawn as a stick figure with short, dark, curly hair, comes on-panel from the right. Megan: Apparently there was a superstition that saying its name would summon it. "Bear" and "bruin" mean "the brown one." Its actual name has been lost. Cueball: Wow. Ponytail: Gretchen, is this for real? Panel 3: Zoom-in on Gretchen. Gretchen: Well, sort of Gretchen: The Proto-Indo-European root was *rkto- Gretchen: It was lost in the Germanic languages like English, but survived elsewhere, e.g. Greek "arktos" and Latin "ursus" Panel 4: Back to the second panel, with Megan holding her phone down, Ponytail with her hands in the air, and Gretchen with her hand on her chin. Megan: So could we figure out what the word would have been in English? Gretchen: Hmm. I mean, we'll never know, but given Germanic sound shifts, a reasonable guess might be "arth"? Ponytail: No!! Panel 5: The panel zooms in again to Gretchen. Ponytail (off-panel): Stop! AAAAA! Gretchen: What?? Ponytail (off-panel): Don't say it! Panel 6: Ponytail is holding her palms out. Megan is no longer in the panel. Ponytail: What have you done? Off-panel noise: ROAR (with a wavy speech balloon around it) Gretchen: Oh Gretchen: Oh no
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today's #sixteenthcentury recipe is for cold shoulder, but that is probably not where the expression comes from. It's actually pretty good.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/21/t...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #proverb
This 1569 woodcut by Jost Amman shows a ram with wide, curving horns and luxuriant fleece looking directly at the viewer, hind legs poised to propel him forward. Being pointedly ignored seems preferable at this point.
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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millaschoen.bsky.social
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Screenshot ARD ONE: Ein Bild von Christian Ehring von Extra 3. Daneben ein Zitat von ihm "Ich sage es mal ganz deutlich: Wenn eine gesetzliche Regelung wie "nur ja heißt ja" Ihr Sexualleben einschränkt, dann ist es auch höchste Zeit dafür."
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today, two recipes for the same ox tongue pastry from different sources, both from Augsburg c. 1550. We have few other places with that much material to work from.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/19/t...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #Welser
Mid-16th century Woodcut from a Ständebuch illustrating the profession of butcher. The picture shows two men slaughtering an ox. The master butcher, dressed in fashionable slashed and puffed clothing, is raising an axe for the stunning blow. His assistant, wearing a work shirt, is holding the animal by its horns to steady the head. Both men have sheaths holding multiple knives attached to their belts showing their profession.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Translations! We need them more than ever now people rely on words a metal box vomits out.
hrehistorian.bsky.social Duncan Hardy @hrehistorian.bsky.social · 9d
It’s publication day for Law, Society and Political Culture in Late Medieval and Reformation Germany! At last, the key sources from the Holy Roman Empire - laws, treaties, and polemics - are available in English translation. #medievalsky #earlymodern

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
Front cover for the new entry in Manchester Medieval Sources, Law, Society and Political Culture in Late Medieval and Reformation Germany.
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity
an image of Katie Wilson standing in a button-up shirt and slacks riding the bus in the morning while holding on onto a rail
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM