One of the dishes Reuben Kendall cooked for a feast this past Christmas was flavored with pumpkin spice — cinnamon ... friends have been sitting down to medieval feasts for Christmas.

What's fascinating is the inclusion of nutmeg in the decongestant. This shows that the spice was ubiquitous in medieval England, despite being grown 8,000 miles away in Indonesia. And 'stale ale ...

(Courtesy Matthew Champion, Norfolk and Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Surveys ... of one of the busiest ports in England, the Glaven Port, where grain, malt, fish, spices, coal, cloth, barley ...