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Food in Shakespeare's England

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Interesting article from BBC News

 

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It was generally believed that eating meat was divinely ordained and the dietary authors promoted meat as more healthy than a vegetarian diet, although it had to be considered whether or not a specific meat was suited to one's "humour", occupation, and even nationality.

 

For example, bacon was thought fitting only for labourers or those involved in physical activity because it was difficult to digest and vigorous work would help this process.

 

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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Shakespeare died 400 years ago today (23rd April). His works are full of food references, both literal and metaphorical.

 

My MA thesis was partly on food in Shakespeare. I could hardly cook then, but the food bug had taken hold, although I didn't know it.

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I skimmed the article. It seems to totally ignore how one's position in life directly affected what food one could afford.

 

An a Renaissance re-enactor who works backstage to feed other re-reactors (not trying to produce authentic Elizabethan cuisine) I have taken several workshops, done other research and have watched all 3 episodes of "The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England" several times to understand their diet. With that, I simply wish they would have been clearer as to who in England this eating applied to

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