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

[Alexander Clark]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:54:59, Stefan li Rous quoted Garth Groff:
> 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
> . . .

They seem to mean that he took to eating more richly than was usual
for his rank.  It seems to me that maybe he had to.  He was locked
into a fight to the death between the great households, and sumptuous
feasting was something they did to keep up their credibility.  Too bad
for him that he had more dynastic troubles than he could shake a roast
cygnet in chawdoun at.

The part about eating "swan, crane, heron and egret" refers to animals
that were all on his coronation menu, and the first three were also on
many other menus from the preceding century, while egrets were only a
little more scarce.

BTW I'm doing a Richard III feast on October 4 in my home shire of
Nithgaard in Central PA.  Though we don't have the budget for swan,
crane, heron, and egret.

-- 
Henry/Alex