Do you think because you are virtuous that there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Shakespeare, Othello, Act 2, Scene 3.

Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network. This is episode 86, food and meals in Tudor England. So first, admin, guess what you guys? I opened a shop. So it's not a real physical one, but it's an online one. You can come visit me there, as it were. I'm curating products that are either directly Tudor, like the leggings featuring

an imaginary dinner party of all six wives, or a series of mugs with gorgeous sketches of famous

Tudor women in their quotes, or they evoke Tudor themes, such as charm jewelry with crowns and

leather notebooks. You can check it out at shop.englandcast.com and I hope you'll find

something lovely there for yourself. It's a great way to support the podcast, support my work here,

while also getting something super cool and a great conversation starter. I also need to thank my

patrons. We have amazing patrons here. Thank you so much to Kathy.

Yergan. That's my daddy. Ashley, Kendra, Ann Belin, also known as Jessica, Elizabeth, Cynthia,

Judy, Ian from Albion, thank you. And also, how did your students paper turn out this summer?

I would love to know. Also, Laura, Barbara, Shar, Kiva, Amy, Allison, Joanne, Kathy, Christine, Annetta, Candace,

Rebecca from TudorsDinacy.com.

Check out her blog.

Al and Shandor.

I love you guys.

You're awesome.

Finally, the Agora podcast of the month.

It's September and it's still tiny vampires, which is about science, disease, and blood-sucking creatures.

It's a really fascinating show, and I highly recommended the Tiny Vampires Podcast.

Now, Food and Dining. This is something I've been interested in a lot recently, because it seems

like, similarly to music, eating the food of a time period is one way to authentically experience

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