Yesterday the Craftzine blog printed these words from Sarah Lohman's blog about historic cuisine:

Why bother deciphering a recipe over 150 years old?

You can take a collection of words and measurements written long ago, and turn it into a physical object. You can create something that looks, smells, and tastes just like it did hundreds of years ago. And that's the next best thing to time travel: it's a window to the past that lets you understand a little bit about another way of life.

I play recorders with a group of like-minded people. We mostly play music of the Renaissance (on Baroque recorders...). Do I feel a connection to the musicians who played this music five hundred years ago? To the composers who wrote the music? To the audience who listened to it? Or danced to it? Well, not really, but I like the idea.

Adieu mes amours by Josquin des Prez in the Odhecaton.