Beyond Sad Gruel: Food and Diet in Medieval Europe

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Seasonal eating and regional eating were the variables responsible for the most widespread differences in what people ate, although then as now, wealth and class played a significant role in what was available to and prized by diners. Contrary to Hollywood myth, though, sad gruel was not the norm. This episode explores cooking, eating, and thinking about food in medieval Europe.

​Host: Lucy

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Further Reading
Bodleian MS Laud Misc 237.

Paul Cullen, Richard Jones, and David Parsons, Thorps in a Changing Landscape, University Of Hertfordshire Press, (2011).

Fabian Kümmeler, “Balancing an Island Community’s Food Supply: Rural-Urban Interdependencies and Intra-Communal Conflict on Korčula, 15th Century” International Congress for Medieval Studies, Leeds, July 2016.

Jarbel Rodriguez, ed., Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages, University of Toronto Press, (2015).

C.M. Woolgar, “Medieval Food and Colour,” Journal of Medieval History 44:1 (2017): 1–20. doi:10.1080/03044181.2017.1401391.

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​​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)