Diet in Tudor England – Drink (Part Two) Guest post by P. Deegan Now the most common soft drinks in Britain and the USA are coffee and tea. But neither coffee nor tea was introduced into Britain until the 17th century. The tea we currently drink is made from the plant called Camellia sinensis and…
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Diet in Tudor England – Food (Part One) Guest post by P. Deegan The food available to the people in Britain, during the Tudor period, was far more limited than is available to modern people. Refrigeration did not exist and some foodstuffs may have been imported but nowhere near on the scale of modern western…
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