Eating with the Tudors

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What did the Tudor age understand about digestion? How did this affect what foods people prepared and ate? Was there such a thing as healthy eating? How did they manage seasonal food changes and seasons of scarcity? And what role did food play in establishing class, belonging and status?

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Brigitte Webster, a culinary historian and journalist. Her new book, Eating with the Tudors: Food and Recipes is full of extraordinary insights that give us an idea about how the Tudors really lived.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	If you're a fan of this podcast, I've got some exciting news for you.
0:05.7	We're publishing a book, an actual book.
0:08.4	Have you ever wondered who the third man on the moon was?
0:12.5	Why a pigeon is a hero of the American army, and whether Napoleon was actually as small
0:18.6	as people say he was?
0:20.3	Well history hit Miss Salony has good early answers, it's available to preorder now and
0:24.5	will be published on the 28th of September, preorder from your favourite bookshop or visit
0:29.8	history hit dot com slash book.
0:39.8	Little while ago we made a podcast with Dr Mark Dawson about the Willoughby family of
0:45.6	not him, the food they ate and how it changed over time.
0:50.8	Well today we're going a step or two further on our 16th century field to fork journey to
0:57.0	consider some unanswered questions.
1:00.1	What did the Tudor age understand about digestion and how did this affect what they consumed
1:06.1	and the way they prepared it?
1:08.2	Was there such a thing as healthy eating?
1:11.4	How did people in the 16th century manage seasonal food changes and seasons of scarcity?
1:16.8	We'll also be talking Tudor recipes, cookbooks and attitudes to meet dairy goods and vegetables.
1:24.1	Our guide today is a returning guest, Brigita Webster, a culinary historian and journalist
1:30.3	who as you'll hear has made Tudor eating a way of life.
1:34.5	Brigita joined us early in the life of this podcast to talk about banquets, the sweet
1:38.8	course eaten after a feast in Tudor times.
1:41.7	Today I'm delighted to welcome her to talk about her gorgeous new book, Eating with the
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