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

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Actually, in France at least, people did drink both water and milk well  
before that:
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-wine-water-and-beer-what-else.ht
ml
 
And Alfric's famous 10th c. colloquy makes it clear they were drinking ale  
before hops - not to mention that Roman soldiers were already drinking it  
there (despite Tacitus' famous unfamiliarity with the Germanic drink made  
ftom grain):
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=0VI4AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22et%20quid%20bibis%22&pg
=PR78#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=0VI4AAAAIAAJ&dq="et%20quid%20bibis"&pg=PR78#v=onepage&q&f=false) 
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/stumbling-through-history-towards-beer.
html
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

French cities of the  Dark Ages
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/08/french-cities-of-dark-ages.html







In a message dated 8/18/2014 5:16:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
wandap at hevanet.com writes:

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.