[Sca-cooks] fwd: [MR] BBC: Richard III's Diet and Drinking

[Wanda pease]

What was he supposed to drink?  Water?  would you drink untreated water from those wells?  Cholera anyone?  Milk, before pasteurization ?  Ale?  Beer not coming to England til hops.

A bottle equivalent in a Day? 
 How much liquid do you drink in a day?  Count Coffee, Soda and tea.  Bet you drink more than a wine bottle's worth (as you noted wine came in barrels and was decanted into pitchers).

Add that the wine was possibly watered at various times of the day.  This doesn't come close to the Frat party boy chugging Chianti at a party, or Joe Sixpack.

Ate Swan and Goose!  Not really extravagant at a time when they were raised in numbers great enough to drive in large flocks across country (stores of the Little Goose Girl).  

He didn't eat a peasant diet, but de doesn't seem to have gorged himself like a Georgian sybarite either.

Regina


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> On Aug 18, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I thought some here might find this interesting.
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> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:50:23 -0400
> From: Garth Groff via Atlantia <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
> To: Merry Rose <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: [MR] BBC: Richard III's Diet and Drinking
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> Noble Friends,
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> Today the BBC is reporting that analysis of his bones and teeth reveal 
> that he ate a very rich diet, even for nobility (Duh! He was king, 
> wasn't he?), and drank up to a bottle of wine a day: 
> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-28825653 . Actually, 
> this is a bit misleading, as wine came in "pipes", not bottles, and was 
> probably drawn off and served from a pitcher of some sort. In any case, 
> the very late king partied heavily.
> 
> More Richard III news is sure to come, so stay tuned for another chapter 
> in history's the longest running soap opera.
> 
> Yours Aye,
> 
> Lord Mungo Napier, That Crazy Scot
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