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

[Richenda du Jardin]

On 8/18/2014 5:16 PM, Wanda pease wrote:
> 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.
Milk is safe to drink even unpasteurized - if it is drunk in a timely 
fashion. Pasteurization allows milk to be stored for a longer period of 
time. It is very American to think that unpasteurized milk is unsafe to 
drink.


Richenda