Eating with the Tudors: Food and Recipes

Eating with the Tudors is a collection of authentic Tudor recipes that explores how religion, reform, and politics influenced what was served on a Tudor's dining table, from Henry VII's reign to Elizabeth I's rule. It reveals the Tudor's obsession with food, popular ingredients, and old and new dishes. It also provides insight into the significance of food in establishing class, belonging, and status and encourages readers to recreate iconic Tudor flavors and experiences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 30 July 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Eating with the Tudors is an extensive collection of authentic Tudor recipes that tell the story of a dramatically changing world in sixteenth-century England. This book highlights how religion, reformation, and politics influenced what was served on a Tudor's dining table from the very beginning of Henry VII's reign to the final days of Elizabeth I's rule. Discover interesting little food snippets from Tudor society, carefully researched from household account books, manuscripts, letters, wills, diaries, and various works by Tudor physicians, herbalists, and chronologists. Find out about the Tudor's obsession with food and uncover which key ingredients were the most popular choice. Rediscover old Tudor favorites that once again are being celebrated in trendy restaurants and learn about the new, exotic food that excited and those foods that failed to meet the Elizabethan expectations. Eating with the Tudors explains the whole concept of what a healthy, balanced meal meant to the people of Tudor England and the significance and symbology of certain food and its availability throughout the year. Gain an insight into the world of Tudor food, its role to establish class, belonging, and status, and be tempted to re-create some iconic Tudor flavors and experience for yourself the many varied and delicious seasonal tastes that Tudor dishes have to offer. Spice up your culinary habits and step back in time to recreate a true Tudor feast by impressing your guests the Tudor way or prepare a New Year's culinary gift fit for a Tudor monarch.

Weight: 786g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399092593