Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits (Copy)
The Academy’s mission is to help you use food, design and style to build relationships and make everyone feel good the instant they enter your home.
Uhtred’s Feast
A few years ago, I went on a culinary adventure with best-selling author and Officer of the Order of The British Empire (OBE) Bernard Cornwell, whose historical novels are set in England. For his most recent series, The Last Kingdom, featuring a Saxon/Viking character named Uhtred (lightly based on the real-life Uhtred of Bebbanburg who lived in the late 10th and early 11th centuries), is about England’s formation under King Alfred the Great. Bernard wanted an accompanying cookbook, and although no authentic era recipe books survive, I used my imagination and what research I could find about available ingredients and cooking techniques from that time, like wild caught salmon seared in a fire pit. Although it sounds quite specific, I simply imagined what Uhtred would want to eat, and then working backwards, adapted my imagined period recipe for the modern kitchen. The foods are ones Vikings might have cultivated, raised, hunted, fished or stored. Released first in England, our collaboration of storytelling and recipes, entitled Uhtred’s Feast, will soon be available in the US. And if you like epic historical dramas, you can see the series on Netflix, starring German actor Alexander Doetsch.
Continue your education with the Academy of Domestic Pursuits. Contact us to learn more about booking Dean Suzanne Pollak at your next event…
follow our blog.
get social.
CAMPUS BOOKSHOP
Suzanne Pollak co-wrote this book with Pat Conroy.
The Dean literally wrote the book on Entertaining for Dummies. #expert