Brits ate better 700 years ago
A chef has claimed people in medieval Britain had better diets then they do nowadays.Self-confessed medieval foodie, Clarissa Dickson Wright, says food in the 1300s was better for you then much of todays offering.
Clarissa is currently using 'The Forme of Cury' Britain's first cook-book
as a basis for a new BBC Four show where she sources authentic ingredients and cooks in a period kitchen.
She says it is not only the low-fat, vegetable-rich diet in 700-year-old scroll - written during the reign of King Richard II - which is better than todays food - but most of what was on offer.
Why does it say "Ancient English Cookery" if it was modern at the time it was written? Just curious.
Well spotted. The image shows one of the first printed versions of the book from the mid 1700s, though the original had been hand written 400 years earlier, so I guess it was ancient cookery by then.
You get a bonus point for paying attention.