Blog
-
Saint Hildegard and the usefulness of Hops – Cheers!
A Time Before Hops Hops weren’t always used in beer brewing—in the earliest days, brewers used all kinds of plants to flavor beer. Generally, a beer created without the use of hops is called a ‘gruit’ or ‘grut’. ‘Gruit’ (or…
-
The Hildegard of Bingen Trail in Germany
Hildegard Pilgrimage Path “I love this sign, don’t you? I’ve traveled to a lot of holy places, but Bingen, Germany, is the only place where the pilgrimage route is marked by a nun sign. Hildegard is their most famous resident,…
-
What was Saint Hildegard the Patron Saint of? Culinary arts? Creativity?
Culinary arts? Creativity? The arts? The question of what Saint Hildegard is the patron saint of came up recently when I was asked where I first heard of Saint Hildegard as the Patron Saint of Creativity. In my documentary The…