Credit: University of Bristol
They had a whey with curds.................
I bet they didn’t survive on tofu and bean sprouts...
I nice Bowl of Pottage
and a Fresh loaf of bread
Is all the Ancestors wanted.
I was Happy with a In-n-Out
Double-Double last nite.
I appreciate modern culinary offerings.
They ate whatever they could hunt, gather, raise or grow. Why waste time and money with this so-called research? It just supplements the same crew who invent things like global warming- oops, now it’s climate change- to keep money flowing in their direction.
In King Arthur’s Britain they used to eat Spamalot
BS, vegetables do not grow in cold snow.
Interesting. However, this research is only based on one village, called West Cotton. Hopefully they’ll get around to doing the same procedure in other villages and get a bigger picture.
There’s a youtube series on this. Medieval peasants ate what would now be found at your typical upscale trendy gastro-pub today
a lot of fish
rabbit
cured pork, particularly cheap cuts
greens
whole grain bread
ale
spices, which were extremely expensive, were only what they could find locally - thinks like wild onions, sorrel, rosemary (depending on climate)
they actually ate better (more healthily) than nobles.
We’re often told that medieval peasants had bad teeth. However, an archaeologist in Germany said the contrary, said they had better teeth than people today.
It’s news that peasants ate pottage???
Crackpots...
“The findings demonstrated that stews (or pottages) of meat (beef and mutton) and vegetables such as cabbage and leek, were the mainstay of the medieval peasant diet.
The research also showed that dairy products, likely the ‘green cheeses’ known to be eaten by the peasantry, also played an important role in their diet.”
Healthy diet.
Dayum! Someone actually got paid to do a study on the obvious??
Leek pottage hot.
Leek pottage cold.
Leek pottage in the pot
Nine hundred years old.
Dirty gruel with small stones included.
Because with these so called experts every set of skeletons is a king and every structure is a religious site.
This diet would be fine by me. It stands to reason they'd eat what is available and easily grown for the climate. It's not like they'd be chowing down on sushi.
Nice research that adds to the knowledge already there but this is not new information.
I’m currently reading a book called The Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England which lays out life back then in great detail including the diet of average peasants to royalty.
Interesting stuff and not that different general diet from today.
Schi da kasha, pischa nasha.
Cabbage and buckwheat - our kind of food.
