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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9290681" data-attributes="member: 6780330"><p>Interestingly, this reputable source (among historians) indicates this particular falacious legend dates aaaaall tge way back to 1939:</p><p></p><p>15. That medieval people ate rotten meat</p><p>This particular myth is not that old – it started in 1939 with the publication of The Englishman’s Food: Five Centuries of English Diet. The authors were not experts in medieval food, but had read that in 14th century London there were laws against selling rotten meat. For some reason, they saw this as proof that people were eating lots of rotten meat. They also misunderstood a recipe from 1594, and that was all the evidence they needed to claim that people were using spices as a way to mask the smell of rotten meat.</p><p></p><p>Spices, which included very expensive items imported from across the medieval world, were widely used for the same reason people use them today: they added to the flavour. If medieval people, especially the wealthy, can be blamed for one thing, it was that they liked to create very elaborate recipes. In other words, they liked to cook.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/20-myths-middle-ages/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 9290681, member: 6780330"] Interestingly, this reputable source (among historians) indicates this particular falacious legend dates aaaaall tge way back to 1939: 15. That medieval people ate rotten meat This particular myth is not that old – it started in 1939 with the publication of The Englishman’s Food: Five Centuries of English Diet. The authors were not experts in medieval food, but had read that in 14th century London there were laws against selling rotten meat. For some reason, they saw this as proof that people were eating lots of rotten meat. They also misunderstood a recipe from 1594, and that was all the evidence they needed to claim that people were using spices as a way to mask the smell of rotten meat. Spices, which included very expensive items imported from across the medieval world, were widely used for the same reason people use them today: they added to the flavour. If medieval people, especially the wealthy, can be blamed for one thing, it was that they liked to create very elaborate recipes. In other words, they liked to cook. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/20-myths-middle-ages/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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