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culina vetus (Volker Bach)
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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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afelia.bsky.social
Im Rentenpaket fällt mir wieder auf, wie sehr Berichterstattung darauf fokussiert, was das für Koalitionsstabilität und Kontrolle der Parteichefs über ihre Partei bedeutet, und wie wenig darauf, was es für das Leben der Menschen bedeutet.
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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micaylah.bsky.social
Absolutely. I stand with Ukraine. My Mom was Canadian and born and raised in a province that has historically had tons of Ukrainians. It might be a tenuous connection but I still have a lot of those second gen friends.
#IStandWithUkraine
electroboyusa.bsky.social Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · Mar 8
This man was courageous enough to stand up to Trump and Vance.

So it's important to post this message and photo to 27 million people.

Don't just "like" it -- that only means that YOU'VE seen it.

Postb it, blow it up and get it out there!

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social
Many of you who are tempted to express dislike because they are ‘boring’, would probably change their mind after having tried Scappi’s wonderful Renaissance Brussel Sprouts soup recipe. Divine. 😋
past-times-lh.bsky.social Past-Times Living History @past-times-lh.bsky.social · 1d
#Advent Day 5

Love a Brussel Sprout? Or are these green gorgeous globes your idea of grim green grossness?

Answers below😁

This festive feature from the late 1600s can be enjoyed in many dishes such as this fab Brussel Sprout Soup from 1570 courtesy of @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social

Try it!!
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Stromanbieter: "Gute Nachrichten! Der Preis pro kWh sinkt! Besonders profitieren Familien mit hohem Verbrauch! Der Festbetrag steigt, aber das gleicht sich mehr als aus."

Ich (versierter Energiesparer, jahrelang in LEDs und Klasse AAA investiert): "danke."
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
At long last, a recipe: Chicken in a wine sauce, a kind of proto-coq au vin. Except with lots of spices and lemons.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/12/04/s...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #chicken
A painting by Joachim Beuckelaer. The picture shows an improbably well-dressed female servant holding a spit in her left hand and a plucked and dressed bird in her right. A second fowl is already spitted ready for roasting. Lemons are visible in a fruit basket in the left background while meat and large fish dominate the right foreground, ready to make a lavish meal.
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Random thought while cursing railway information infrastructure: in your daily experience, do you encounter AI doing things that didn't previously happen? Because I can only think of instances of it doing things people used to do, but worse.
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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volksverpetzer.de
Die Familienunternehmer wollen die AfD jetzt doch nicht mehr einladen. Der Fall zeigt: es lohnt sich immer noch, weiter für die Brandmauer zu kämpfen.
www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/fa...
Sieg für Demokraten: Familienunternehmer machen Rückzieher
Die Familienunternehmer wollen die AfD jetzt doch nicht mehr einladen. Der Fall zeigt: es lohnt sich immer noch, weiter für die Brandmauer zu kämpfen.
www.volksverpetzer.de
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Investing in developing General Artificial Intelligence doesn't add up. A self-aware, conscious AI would be a person. Persons have rights.
Either they don't believe they can do it and are lying.
Or they want to own people.
Neither sounds good to me.
December 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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lizetkruyff.bsky.social
Stop #RussianWarCrimes
toensmeyer.bsky.social Tatjana Tönsmeyer @toensmeyer.bsky.social · 6d
Putin will in der besetzten Ukraine eine Russifizierungsquote von 95 %. Das ist kultureller Genozid. Was russische Besatzung bedeutet, ist viel zu wenig Teil der deutschen und internationalen Debatte um "Frieden". Besatzung ist kein Frieden! Sie ermöglicht Gewalt ohne Gegenwehr.
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
There is that
larsga.bsky.social Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 6d
Beginning to look to me like the only type of boiled beer is European commercial beer. I don't think any of the other continents boiled, and European farmhouse brewers largely didn't, either.

So of course everyone concluded all beer must be boiled.
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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ninocipri.bsky.social
This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
culinavetus.bsky.social
"Verify you are a human" ist die Bettelampel des neuen Internet. Knopf drücken und auf Grün warten. Und auch wegen der Maschinen, die da eigentlich nur stören.
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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hart-frentz.bsky.social
Kaufrausch ..
Konsum Pyramide
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Looks like the gloves are off.
la-croix.com La Croix @la-croix.com · 8d
Le Louvre augmente de 45 % son prix d’entrée pour les visiteurs extra-européens
Le Louvre augmente de 45 % son prix d’entrée pour les visiteurs extra-européens
l.la-croix.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today, more of Staindl's recipes with lung and liver. One is a Mörserkuchen. #Earlymodern cooks really got creative.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/27/m...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky #offal #nosetotail
Painting by Giovanni Battista Recco, c. 1660. The image shows a juvenile sheep with all four legs tied together laid out on a stone step. A basket filled with eggs is standing beside it. The intent of the image is allegorical and religious, of course, but it also depicts the kind of delivery a cook may well have taken before preparing today's recipes.
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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 · 9d
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 · 13d
“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