[Sca-cooks] fwd: [MR] BBC: Richard III's Diet and Drinking
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Mon Aug 18 17:35:13 PDT 2014
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.
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