mediaeval food
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I stupidly decided to cook a mediaeval feast to celebrate New Year’s Eve with some friends. I say ‘stupidly’ not because it wasn’t a success but because the amount of work and fiddly techniques nearly killed me! I wanted to do something similar to one of the courses of Richard’s coronation feast, so about 15-20…
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Clarissa Dickson Wright and the Art of Medieval Food
Alfred the Great, BBC, British Library, Candid Camera, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Enoch Powell, George Duke of Clarence, Henry IV, Jennifer Paterson, mediaeval food, medieval recipes, Pontefract Castle, Richard II, Richard Olney, The Form of Cury, The King’s Cookbook, The Spectator, Two Fat Ladies, Waffle House, Yotam OttolenghiThe late Clarissa Dickson Wright is known to the English-speaking countries of the world as one of The Two Fat Ladies – the middle-aged motorcycling cooks who zipped around the English, Welsh and Irish countryside, one at the wheel of a Triumph Thunderbird, the other stuffed into the sidecar wearing what appeared to be…
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I wrote a blog post a good while ago about the love of lamprey in mediaeval times and ever since then I have wanted to try it. Well, in the summer of 2017, I finally got the chance. We were visiting Bordeaux and had taken a river boat cruise on the Garonne river – the…
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According to Mark Twain, “A cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.” And maybe he’s right, but the BBC documentary series “1066: A Year to Conquer England”, starts off with cauliflowers that must have had a Tesco education. There they sit, large, super-white, plump, and nestling in beautifully tender, pale green supermarket-trimmed…
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If you have not seen the BBC documentary series “Secrets of the Castle”, please give it a whirl. It is about a 20-year project in Burgundy to build/rebuild a medieval castle, using all the materials and skills that would have been available to the original castle-builders. It is being repeated on the Yesterday channel at…
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It is said that eating cheese last thing at night is very bad indeed for the digestion, and will result in alternate sleeplessness or bad dreams. Well, so I have been told. I ate cheese last thing last night and slept like a log, but I woke up this morning with the odd thought about…
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