With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place ...

OYSTERS and “escargot” are recognised as luxury foods around the world — but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

It’s ironic that it took the approval of a foreign emperor who had just conquered Napoleon to restore luxury status to ...

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap ...

Into the past in Auxerre and Dijon No medieval peasant in this region, even surrounded by churches, could have doubted the importance of the town of Auxerre, just 20 miles away. Its pale ...

Forget free laundry or gyms, my first two years living in the dorms here have given me the immune system of a smug and pockmarked medieval peasant who survived to adulthood. Mastery of awkward ...

During the 1980s, supermarkets stopped purchasing peaches from Mas Masumoto’s 80-acre organic fruit farm in Fresno, California. His heirloom peaches were deemed “too small,” they said.

Kingdoms and Castles is a charming indie city-building simulation that transports players to a vibrant, low-poly medieval ... peasants and a dream of grandeur. From there, you assign tasks like ...

Even places with barely a walk-on part in the Peasants’ War are doing something: Pfeddersheim in Baden is hosting a summer wine festival with medieval market to remember a battle in which thousands ...

The Saturday's equally varied programme also will feature something for all ages, including an over-18s night at a medieval tavern. The lower floor of the Castle Keep in Newcastle is to become The ...