A thorough look at what the Irish of the early medieval period would have eaten. This is an extensively researched work and a comprehensive analysis of the ingredients, cooking methods, and social factors that made up an ancient culture's approach to that most basic building blocks of a society.

Morgan Smith has been a goatherd, an artist, a landscaper, a weaver, a bookstore owner, a travel writer and an archaeologist, and she will drop everything to go anywhere, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Writing is something she has been doing all her life, though, one way or another, and now she thinks she might actually have something to say.