Les Leftovers
sort of a food history blog
Saturday, July 12, 2014
The later water myths: Old Regime water after the Middle Ages
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An earlier post addressed the tenacious myth that medieval drinkers used alcoholic drinks because the water was bad. But the Middle Ages d...
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Shifts in fasting in medieval France
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Knotker the Stammerer tells how Charlemagne visited a bishop on a Friday and the bishop having no other fast day food offered him cheese (a...
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