I read it after my sister got it for me for Christmas! It was very fascinating.

I’ll have to check it out

Quite possibly the best book about Henry's court that exists! I bought it and read it so many times it wore out and I had to buy another

I bet.

I live 5 mins away by car

Lucky you!

Hoping to go one day ....

@E M u will love it. Be sure to hire the headphones

What did it taste like

@@marydelrey4451 my mom commented this when i was 6-

Heavy metal poisoning is the way they used to kill kings.

"heathy not unhealthily." say what son?

Well, of course it's reuseable. Hence why it's so valuable can't easily be destroyed.

It hasn't changed that much; it's not the rich in modern times who eat spam and hot dogs.

Before refrigeration was invented, meat had to be cured, because if it wasn't, it had to be eaten within days of being slaughtered, or else it would go bad. A pig weighs several hundred pounds, which is enough to feed a family for a few months. Since every part of a pig would be eaten (even gelatine from the bones), it would be a huge waste if most of it went bad. Especially with food in such short supply in winter.

The way they cooked it. On a spit

ohh im sure they did

Rie knowing our lot of kings they probably did but that parts been buried.

@@GothicaBeauty Exactly.

most expensive ice cream is coated with a thin layer of gold in new york city for like 1,999 I think? Its ridiculous a business like that exists and succeeds. Its just people with more money than they know what to do with.

JohnPaul Dixon Lol!

its gold flakes, not gold chunks you'd break your teeth lol! think of it as a garnish.

Gold passes right through the body and comes out the other end, intact, in gold-flecked poo.

AlbostyleG щ

They're just exaggerating, catering for events far larger than 600 people happen on a regular basis in the modern world. Plus cooking techniques and kitchen organization would be far more advanced today. With the advent of industrialization and industrialized wars in the 1800, people had to figure out to cook for armies of hundreds of thousands, later millions of soldiers. That led directly to kitchen service practices today.

Alex Ehlers that should be fairly simple....

movement26 The kitchen workers got meat *every day* - yes, it was small portions shared with several others, & it was salted meat that was then boiled, but they got it every day- & they were also entitled to 16 pints of ale or small beer, as well as a pound of bread.

DICK HEAD

absolutely good point

nightofcrimson13. That's a good observation they didn't have a real understanding at that time of germs and bacteria they worked under the belief that the body was made up of humours that when misaligned caused a person to become ill. Unlike today of course we now know that bacteria and germs cause illness and that good hand washing and sanitation practices prevent illness. During Henry's time western medicine was still in its infancy they used practices in treating people that had been around for centuries and passed down through the generations. Most families even had areas around their homes for medicinal plants and herbs used to treat various ailments. Don't get me wrong though we have thing that we know now thanks to The physicians of Henry's time they I believe and I may be incorrect that it was in Henry's time that they began using the bodies of hanged prisoners as medical cadavers.

Back then, there were no cultivated strawberries, only tiny wild strawberries. It took a couple of hundred to fill a pint box.

When the place is lit only by candles and cooking fires, you need whitewashed walls to reflect that light, increasing it. Whitewash contains caustic lime, which pulls moisture from the air, reducing dampness. Medieval castles had rendered, whitewashed walls for the same reasons. We just don't see it in the castles that remain, because it's worn off through the centuries.

It's not exactly unhealthy. It passes through the body without harming it; it is in fact perfectly safe to eat gold.

Yes. It's inert, so it goes right through the digestive system, without breaking down at all. That's how *real* gold leaf can be safely eaten. Artificial gold leaf cannot be eaten, because it's a blend of toxic metals, which break down in the digestive system, and are absorbed into the body.

francis olivier to be fair, he only killed a couple of them...😉

francis olivier "killt"!!!???

Think someone is on mum's account ... creedy IS greedy , kilt Is killed , realy really .. bless

To much fat

Well a lot of American food is actually based on English food, bacon for breakfast, fries, Yankee Pot Roast, for example.Also, from a country that has syrup for breakfast squeezes cheese out of tube, please! Oh, and by the way, where does Cheddar Cheese that Americans love so much come from? Now, erm let me think.

Britain is not a country.

@Robert Frapples -- Fish and chips is usually nice. Afternoon tea can be very nice. Likewise, the Sunday roast beef dinner. The less attractive foods -- jellied eels, mushy peas, chip butty (french fries / chips between slices of buttered bread), etc. -- are mostly working class food ; the workers could afford only cheap ingredients and they needed a lot of calories, so they ate fatty, starchy foods.