en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_cuisine
Fascinating article. I really enjoyed it.
Agreed. Wikipedia’s featured articles really do showcase the best things that can happen in a collaborative environment - I read them every day.
If it is accurate that is… :s I enjoy reading them, but often when I read about something I know something about, I find errors…makes me wonder about the rest I know nothing about.
I enjoyed this part [quote] In England and the Low Countries, the per capita annual consumption was around 275-300 liters (60-66 gallons), and it was consumed with practically every meal: low alcohol-content beers for breakfast, and stronger ones later in the day.[/quote]
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Amazing. You can see why those early traders went to such extreme lengths and how important ship-building became…
That was really interesting. What a grip the church had on people then. I wonder what people will be saying about our cooking and eating habits in a thousand years.
If I ever get to build a house in the mountains, it will be designed around the kitchen and the garden. I definitely want to be able to cook animals on a spit.
Maybe they’ll call it the ‘foolish fast food phase’