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The Recipes Project has an active Twitter account (@historecipes) and November has been very fruitful for interesting links. Maybe it has something to do with the nights drawing in, or the festive season rapidly approaching... The following links are the ones that proved most popular with our followers (at least judging by retweets).The month started with John Gallagher at Earlymodernjohn reflecting on the history of soul cakes and live-tweeting his baking experience.The Twitterverse was also all a-flutter with an exciting DIY history project at the University of Iowa Libraries: public transcription of the Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks Collection.On Guy Fawkes Day, we learned how to make fireworks seventeenth-century style at the Whipple Library Books Blog and how to remove ear worms using milk and honey at Sloane Letters Blog. A few days later, Shakespeare's England shared the secrets of setting a fancy table, napkin folding and turning a peacock into a porcupine. As you do.There have also been some tantalizing historical recipes: gingerbread (Travels and Travails in Eighteenth-Century England), sippet pudding (Colonial Williamsburg), Louis XIV's favourite braised chicken (Chateau de Versailles) and -- for smelling, anyhow -- Martha Lloyd's milk of roses and pot-pourri (The Jane Austen's House Museum Blog).The last entry is a recent discovery on my end rather than one found via Twitter: Sarah Duff at Tangerine and Cinnamon discussing "Dude Food". Duff neatly pulls together gender, professional kitchen culture, and the Manifesto of Futurist Cooking.November's been a good month for blog posts--and it's not even over yet!