Related: The middle class is always emerging, there must have been at least one good reason to join the Puritans in 1600, and middle-class striver narratives always end up making you feel sorry for the rich.
Right up there with "medieval nobility didn't bathe" for bizarre assumptions about how people in the past were unrecognizably stupid and also, I guess, had different sensory perception than us?
As a lover of the Middle Ages and medieval cookbooks as well as of Danny Lavery, I need to speak up for the cooks. Danny, you love medieval artists and value their non-modernity. Come to my house and I'll make you a nice spiced something or other (I'm a vegetarian but will make an exception for this project) and try to change your mind.
This is it! The only one of these that's more inexplicable than "everyone in the 15th century thought the world was flat until columbus."
Right up there with "medieval nobility didn't bathe" for bizarre assumptions about how people in the past were unrecognizably stupid and also, I guess, had different sensory perception than us?
INSTANT classic! This was one of your finest!
As always, super vivid. Made me glad to be a vegetarian, even in this fine age of refrigeration and abundant preservatives.
As a lover of the Middle Ages and medieval cookbooks as well as of Danny Lavery, I need to speak up for the cooks. Danny, you love medieval artists and value their non-modernity. Come to my house and I'll make you a nice spiced something or other (I'm a vegetarian but will make an exception for this project) and try to change your mind.