Colin Spencer

Colin Spencer British Food: An extraordinary thousand long time of history. 2002

The denomination looks at food in England from the Tudor Period and the seventeenth Century.





* Starts off with looking at how after the Hundreds Years War, England began to be more independent from Continental Europe
* It was then that England would began cultivating their land and was preparing to sprain a force in the world market
* First Tudor Henry the VII became King, there were not as galore(postnominal) great families around as they had been wiped out from the hundred years war
* This meant that the minor gentry and bourgeois were the purchasers of the land
* They were practical and hardworking tribe who could farm and cultivate the land
* The article really provided compares England and France, only latter on in the article it mentions Germany and Italy
* He says that a major difference between French and English culinary art had to do with their own aristocracies, and it influenced the cuisines
* The other difference was the breakdown with Rome, as the rest of the continent didnt have this as much as England, who outright didnt go through the pope and had their own Anglican Church
* With this new reformation, the population of England rose, and so did the literacy consider with the invention of the printing press
* Food prices rose but reinforcement did not, (about 120% between 1541 and 1641)
* Cookbooks were now being printed as well
* It is overly at this time he says that a sense of nationhood began to creeping in which showed its expression in food
* Cooking became more domesticated, with the women of the kin becoming the centre to what the farm produced
* There were no long-life as many fasting days, and it was now up to the adult female to determine which Saints days the family would fast on or not
* As England lost the Christian monks, who had the herbal gardens and medicinal knowledge, this was now passed to the women of the communities
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