How to Cook Like a Medieval Chef

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Preparing, serving and sharing food has always played a critical role in human history. But what did people in the Middle Ages like to eat and what did their food say about their social status? What was the haute cuisine of medieval Bagdad or Moorish Spain? Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel have recreated classic dishes for their book, A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes, allowing modern-day cooks of all abilities to try out meals that were created and enjoyed hundreds of years ago.

So if you fancy blending spices from the Silk Road, juggling indigenous ingredients of the Americas, or sewing together a terrifying cockentrice - half pig, half chicken - then this episode, in which Matt Lewis finds out more from Victoria and Jay, will have you salivating and eager to try out the recipes for yourself.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	If you're enjoying all the content in this episode and the rest of the
0:03.2	gone medieval series then why not join us for a trip retracing the discovery of
0:07.8	Richard the third we're visiting key locations that tell the story of the life and death of King Richard the third.
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0:30.0	Come.
0:30.0	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval. I'm Matt Lewis.
0:32.0	It's no secret that I like my food.
0:34.4	So the chance to combine stories from history with stories of food
0:38.1	was just too good for me to pass up. A history of the world in 10 dinners,
0:42.2	2,000 years and 100 recipes, is the fantastic and delicious looking book by Victoria Flexner and J Rifle.
0:50.0	It mixes stop-offs at key moments from history that took place at dinner tables with
0:54.7	authentic recipes that you can recreate, bringing the sights and smells of history to your
0:59.6	dinner table, and fortunately only the nice ones. I'm delighted to be joined by
1:04.0	Victoria and Jay to explore some of the connections between high politics and the
1:07.8	dinner table a little bit further. Welcome to God Medieval. Thank you so much
1:11.2	for having us. It's a
1:13.0	pleasure to have you here. I mean talking about food is one of my
1:15.3	favorite things in the world so combining talking about food with history
1:17.9	I'm 100% here for this. To start off with what inspired you to approach the stories from history through the medium of food
1:26.0	How did this book come about? I think for Jay and I the study of history is often about this question of representation.
1:34.2	So many people have been left out of the historical narrative
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