http://www.geocities.com/katjaorlova/Herba...antsGarden.html

http://www.tudortimes.com

Thanks for the links, research-monger! You're on a roll! Do you work this efficeintly in everything you do? If so, we gotta talk over in CCI forum...wanna make some extra dough? ??? Give us a PM.

I try....I just never like to give up or be defeated if I can help it....I refuse to let a computer or a search engine win

Cleave and i were discussing laast night about the kitchen in a medeival tavern and how it might be that it could be constructted in such a way so as to permit the public to see a chef cooking over an open flame, have spits turning, differnt pots hanging at different levels etc.
We were kicking aaround different floor plans - this all centered around how intresting it would be to be able to see a large stonework fireplace with kettles and cookware all ablaze...

That would be cool....when Bertuccis first started you could watch them cook in the brick ovens...people were fascinated.

Stars restaurant in SanFran has a private dining room with an open hearth fireplace that a private chef cooked stuff on...spit roasted rabbit, melted cheeses, potatoes, etc...so I know it can be done. Just need to check out the codes and such. More later...

Laureen- excellent links! That Tudor Times link led to a Medeival themed microbrewery that we may be able to use as a model: Dragonmead microbrewery, it's called. They do lots of events and such and distribute their beer all over Michigan. Over 30 brews! I may post more about that in the Tavern forum...

Sweet....glad it worked out....I didn't spend a whole lot of time on this site....I'll have to go back through it.

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Nice pics...do they come with info?

Only when I can get a breather to post it, Jen is here with her baby and I'm having to be a baby sitter, paper weight, furniture mover, and what ever.

now that is a cool kitchen....much better than the yellow paint.

The monk who is standing in the picture was from some where else and we couldn't get him out of the way.
That is one of four fireplaces in that building. The whole arch is a fireplace with samll bread oven off to the right.
It was taken in the Abbots kitchen of Glastonbury Cathedral on the Isle of Avalon where Meg and I were Wed.


The other is of a castle in Ireland, it's a screen between the kitchen and the dining hall.

its very cool....do they really call it isle of avalon? How'd you lift the mist veil? LOL ok, kidding......pretty cool....I refuse to build B.I. until I've actually seen european castles first hand

Some there call it the Isle and some call it Glastonbury.

The veil was lifted as we travled and was closed behind us. Our visibility was about a mile with the mist clearing all around as our escort led us to the village.
It was a partly cloudy day with shafts of golden sunlight during the ceremony.

sweet