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Tips & Tricks: Make a Medieval Meat-Roasting Pit
Season 2016
Episode 23
If you have a home fireplace, we suggest you assign that handsome hearth a second job: make it a place to spit-roast whole animals for all your feasting needs. Crazy? Maybe. Until you consider the culinary cred you’ll garner when your friends enter your living room to see some tasty beast crisping on a spit as a fire blazes in the background.
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