Posted on 04/20/2023 3:27:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff
… I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made…
Food in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples
(Part of the Ancient Peoples and Places Series)
by Don Brothwell and Patricia Brothwell
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/food-in-antiquity-a-survey-of-the-diet-of-early-peoples_patricia-brothwell_don-brothwell/1463594/
(with a name like Brothwell, it’s gotta be good ;^)
By Max Miller? I subscribe to his You Tube channel. His videos are fantastic.
Bet you miss the human bonfires.
+1
Great song by the way.
Not a fan of marzipan??
No Battenberg cake for you, nick!
(more for me, then, heh heh heh...)
Every item listed here on Henry VIII's feast menu is something I would try (and probably like). I have no problem with internal animal organs at all and don't understand why people are squeamish about them. Whenever I cook a whole turkey at home, I always call dibs on the bag of giblets in the bird cavity. If I'm the one cooking the turkey, I'll push them to the very back of the cavity (removing them from the bag of course) and then add the stuffing. Then, when removing the stuffing after cooking, I'll scoop those giblets out the the back and reserve them for my own plate. I never get competition for those except the family dog.
The description of black pudding was interesting (and I'd try that as well). People in America think of pudding as a sugary sweet smooth dessert as that promoted by Bill Cosby for Jello Pudding. But the British would call that custard. Their pudding is typically meat based and cooked like a sausage. It could even function as a main dish as opposed to a dessert, depending on what ingredients are used, such as the steak and kidney pudding with rich Guinness gravy pictured below.
This looks really good.
In Britain, a pudding can refer to any any dessert, not just what we think of in the U.S.
Wow.They used to throw babies up in the air in front of their mothers and catch them on their swords. The devil lusts for the blood of the innocents.
Copy and pasted from WW1 propaganda. Real deep dive. 🤡🤡🤡
Take care.
The practice was real. Attributed to the Tartars originally. Although most likely spears not swords. Will Durant is a reliable source.
I like Durant. One of many I have found interesting over the years.
Yeah, I have his complete history of Western civilization.
Paper is good. When so-called virtual ‘reality’ goes ‘poof’, great books will be golden, along with a l c o h o l, t o b a c c o and f i r e a r m s.
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