These should probably each get a post of their own, but I’m being lazy…
First, from The Independent:
The way we used to eat: The Tudor kitchen
They didn’t have tomatoes, potatoes
These should probably each get a post of their own, but I’m being lazy…
First, from The Independent:
The way we used to eat: The Tudor kitchen
They didn’t have tomatoes, potatoes
Giles Coren, a London Times correspondent, starred in a 2007 “Supersize Me” TV special that took him through 6 weeks of historical dinners. Of the Tudor period, he reported:
“At first, it was terrible. Up at dawn to go hunting and not so much as a sniff of espresso…
“Dr Tom Van Den Bossche, a GP specialising in nutrition, has looked at the diet and predicted constipation and weight gain … an hour of frog-hunting burns off all the roast piglet and swan…
“There’s pumpkin pie, meat pottage, stewed mutton, boiled pigeon, calf’s lungs, meat custard, numble pie (made with deer’s testicles)…all sorts of delicious stuff. But in 1590, the fork has yet to be invented, and we find that eating with your hands, and feeling your digits grow stickier and smellier by the second, seriously reduces the amount you feel like shovelling in. Hey nonny, nonny.”
I keep hoping they’ll put this on American TV!