by Stephanie Dray | Mar 30, 2021 | Adrienne Lafayette, Food, Fun Stuff, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
My fabulously talented friend Max Miller and I were talking about his popular food show, “Tasting History” when I suggested that he do an episode featuring some food from Lafayette’s day. I provided him with a wedding menu that was posted to the wall...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 21, 2018 | Food, Fun Stuff
Who doesn’t love cookies? I was delighted to learn, while writing My Dear Hamilton with co-author Laura Kamoie, that it was the Dutch New Netherland families like the Schuylers who first brought cookies to America. Now, of course, Dutch cookies tend to be...
by Stephanie Dray | Feb 15, 2017 | America's First Daughter, Food, For Readers, Fun Stuff, My Works
Jeffersonian Pasta with Ham & Peas 16 oz. dry pasta (whichever kind you like, but I prefer fettucini) 1/2 pound diced ham or bacon 3 shallots sliced 8 ounces white sliced mushrooms 2 cloves garlic 1 cup dry white wine 1/2 cup peas 1/3 cup chopped parsley 1/2 heavy...
by Stephanie Dray | Jun 3, 2013 | Food, Fun Stuff
Today I’m taking part in the Summer Banquet Blog Hop in which readers will discover wonderful new historical fiction…and more than a little bit about new foods and culinary trivia. I’m not giving away a prize because I apparently forgot to sign up...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 30, 2011 | Food, Fun Stuff, Other Writers
Guest Post by J. L. Oakley It might come as a surprise, but in the depth of the Great Depression people did enjoy parties and food and no less than at the hundreds of forestry camps around the country and in Alaska and Hawaii run by the Civilian Conservation Corps. A...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 20, 2011 | Food, Fun Stuff, Miscellany
Guest Post by Roberta Trahan Prophecy and magic are essential elements in THE WELL OF TEARS (Amazon Publishing/47North, Spring 2012), an epic historical fantasy set in early 10th century Wales. And, as was true of the ancient agrarian based religions of the time, food...
