News Articles
Armed with a 'battle spoon,' Jaffrey reenactor brings history to life
2026-08-29
"While the Jaffrey resident is especially well-known for the cooking she does while reenacting, she also writes about the meals of yesteryear. Szabo has penned and published four cookbooks — two of which include dishes that span several hundred years — and is the author of a fiction trilogy about vampires."
New Hampshire historical reenactor shows how she prepares colonial-era food
2026-07-01
"In the woods behind her Jaffrey home, author, cook and reenactor Allyson Szabo demonstrated what might have been cooking on a New Hampshire hearth in 1776, complete with period tools, open-fire techniques and recipes drawn from early America."
Auburn NH Day & Duck Race
2022-09-11
"There were more than authors around us, like M. Allyson Szabo, a historical re-enactor who set up a field kitchen, cooked a pie and stew over a fire, and gave samples to dozens of people. The food was so good, many bought her cookbook!"
A portal to the past
2022-08-04
"The Re-enactors
Cookbook by M. Allyson Szabo was
also available if you were inspired to
recreate some of the Renaissance or
Medieval recipes that were presented at the fair."
Rindge library to host local authors
2021-11-29
"On Dec. 18, Zebrowski, Wroten-Heinzmann, Landry and Chatfield are joined by Sharon Healy-Yang, Christopher J. DiLoreto, Dan Szczesny and M. Allyson Szabo."
Everybody's glad to be back in time
2021-08-08
"Szabo is the author of The Reenactor’s Cookbook: Historical and modern recipes for cooking over an open fire, which she wrote in 2020, doing the test cooking in her yard in the Keene area of New Hampshire."
The Reenactor's Cookbook
2021-02-05
"Tonight we take you back a few centuries to medieval times when folks feasted on turkey legs and sausage on a stick. Karen Meyers catches up with a Renaissance re-enactor from Jaffrey who has come out with a cookbook so you too can feast like Henry the VIII."
Jaffrey woman pens historical cookbook
2020-12-15
"Szabo had the thought for a recipe collection “percolating in my head for a while,” she said, so last November she decided to sit down and write it. Participating in the NaNoWriMo event, short for National Novel Writing Month, seemed like the perfect opportunity."
