In 2017 I took a deep dive into old cookbooks, focusing on seafood. It was a marriage of my love of history with my family history in the fisheries. I gathered hundreds of recipes from printed cookbooks and sorted them by fish species to create a volume of “fishstory” that I called: From Head to Tale
From Head to Tale explores five centuries of Western seafood history through the lens of European and North American cookbooks. Cooks, foodways students, historical reenactors and seafood lovers will find From Head to Tale packed with information and fun facts beyond just the recipes.
- Over four hundred recipes, arranged chronologically by species.
- From timeless seafood classics to archaic Medieval dishes.
- Learn which species of fish and shellfish have remained popular through the centuries.
- See how ingredients, cooking methods and even recipe formats evolved over time.
You can read more about it here on the Gloucester Daily Times.
The Historical Vagabond 