this is such a strong opening paragraph for an article about a medieval cookbook
Bruh it’s gonna be like nothing because poor people literally had no food
Or it’s just potatoes WHY WOUKD ANYONE WANT TO EAT LIKE A MEDIEVAL PEASANT???????? They didn’t even have SPICES
Medieval peasants grew crops and owned sheep and chickens and kept gardens to grow herbs and had ways to salt and pickle foods in a time before refrigeration and milked goats to get milk and cheese.
Stop getting all your info from Game of Thrones.
“or its just potatoes” not in medieval Europe, potatoes came over from the Americas during the renaissance
The idea that the peasants ate nothing but scraps all the time, and had no way to spice or flavour their food (despite herbs and allums existing in plentiful supply within nature, both wild and cultivated) is one of the greatest failures of modern fiction and “common knowledge”.




















