Pleasant Picnic

  • Are you a parent or teacher faced with a medieval dinner for your class?
  • Are you a member of a medieval or Renaissance recreation group?
  • Are you tired of bringing bread and butter to potlucks, or to a tourney, but don't really know what else to do?
  • Are you a good cook, but never tried your hand at medieval cooking?

Traveling Dysshes is for you!

Traveling Dysshes

Food for Picnics & Potlucks


Second Edition
168 pages, 30+ new recipes

$20 (includes tax and postage!)


With 80 168!!! pages of text and recipes, Traveling Dysshes introduces you to the world of medieval cooking. Included are:

  • Comprehensive lists of New and Old World Foods
  • Discussion of camp cooking for those outdoor tourneys
  • Lists of non-cook, easy-to-find foods that are perfectly acceptable on the medieval table
  • Lists of easy cook dishes for beginning cooks
  • Recipes translated from period texts, and the original texts included
  • Sources for foodstuffs and spices
  • An extensive, annotated bibliography
  • Sample menus from successful feasts
In addition,Traveling Dysshes is designed >for use in the kitchen, be that kitchen in your home or pavilion:
laminated covers, lay-flat binding, easy-to-read type.

Try It Out -- see a list of sources for medieval cooking, taken from the Sources section of the book!



Available from Poison Pen Press!
(Exclusively at Pennsic since 2000!)

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