I love to teach! If you would be interested in having me teach a class at an event, please use the contact form below. I have a BA in biology from Reed College and a Master of Arts in teaching from Pacific University. In the modern world I’m a high school biology teacher. I am a member of the Order of the Laurel, meaning I have been recognized for my skill in my chosen art forms and the quality of my research. I also just like to make stuff I sew and spin, and have dabbled in dozens of arts over the years. This blog is devoted to my medieval research and projects. My predominate areas of interest are England (especially York) during the high medieval period (the 13th and 14th centuries), everything related to historical food and cooking, women’s history, the daily life of commoners, guild history and the rise of the “middle class,” and gross medieval medicine and science. I live in the Kingdom of An Tir, which encompasses Oregon, Washington, part of Idaho, and British Columbia. I am a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international medieval recreation organization. That is, unless you like disgusting food or you plan to bring your own picnic.Eulalia Piebakere lives in York, England during the reign of Edward, called Longshanks. So the next time you’re daydreaming about life in the Middle Ages, you might want to re-think your desire to time travel. Only the nobility were “lucky” enough to eat this dish. If someone wanted to make a person fall in love with them, they would bake a cake while not wearing any clothing, and then rub the dough on every single orifice in order to absorb their sweat into the cake. This almost gave the appearance of cutting into a live bird. Love potions were generally ingested, which makes the ingredients of this medieval-era 'love cake' potentially disgusting. These would have to be reattached after cooking since they fell out. Unlike roasted chicken or goose, which is plucked clean before its cut into, the peacock was served in its feathers. It was probably served only because of its appearance. The meat of this colorful bird is said to be dry and to taste quite awful, but this did not stop high society from serving it at parties. One of the craziest dishes to grace the banquet table was peacock. It could even be coated with gold leaf if the diners were really important people. It was usually stuffed with rare spices and roasted. This involved cutting a pig and a chicken in half, then attaching the rear of the chicken to the front of the pig. They sewed together parts of several animals to make something called a cockentrice. Matthew Flax 5:51 PM EDT This article will take a look at what people in the Middle Ages ate in England. This did not mean that new species were created, of course, but chefs did the next best thing. Apparently, the dish was favored so much by the Tudor royals that the common people were forbidden to eat porpoise meat.Īs if there weren’t enough strange and disgusting things available to eat in the real world, wealthy medieval people demanded fantastic beasts be “made” for them to consume. Back then, people thought porpoises were fish, so this soup-like dish was served during Lent, when meat was forbidden. If you like dolphins, you probably would not have been a fan of the porpoise pottage eaten by the wealthy during the Middle Ages. The fact that it was cooked in a tasty pastry probably didn’t make it any more appetizing than it sounds. Though it probably wasn’t served at dinner, it was often fed to people with certain medical conditions, such as leprosy and sore throat. If you were rich, however, you would have feasted on several items that might make a modern person gag. It seems rich people thought veggies were beneath them. Meat would have been a rare treat, but you would have eaten more vegetables than your wealthier compatriots. You would have largely subsisted off of grains, in the form of breads and porridges.
If you were poor, your diet would have been meager but not too weird. Nowhere is this difference more evident than in the foods that were eaten in medieval times. From hygiene to medical care, the Middle Ages would feel like a completely different world to a modern person.
Some even dream about going back in time to experience life during that time, and renaissance fairs and a popular dinner show have capitalized quite well on this obsession.īut many people never stop to think about what life was really like for the people who lived during that era.
People often like to romanticize the Middle Ages, imagining it as a time of knights and princesses, all dressed in elaborate medieval garb.
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