It can be hard to stick to a diet in modern times when eating out. It was much the same for a medieval knight, so when he was dining in his own household his personal physician would work with his cook to keep their master in peak condition. In this episode, Jason and food historian Chris Carr discuss the medieval understanding of nutrition and how it affected the knight’s diet, as well as the influence of spices and how they defined one’s social standing.
• Executive Producer: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Executive Producer: Chris Kingsley
• Senior Producer: Brian Jenkins
• Producer: Edward Linley
• Director: Dominic Read
• Presenter: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Subject Matter Expert: Chris Carr
• Camera: Jo Taylor
• Camera: Dominic Read
• Editing: Lindsey Studholme
• Stills Photographer: Kasumi
• Production Manager: Kevin Case
• Audio: Frank Newman
• Sound Design: Liam Flannigan
• Music licensed from PremiumBeat
• Additional Camera: Darren Cook
• Additional Camera: Neil Phillips
• Additional Sound: Elizabeth Carlyon
My French teacher had me research into the transition between the strong castles and the fancier renaissance castles in France. I found a bunch of cool things about food and etiquette and such! One fact is that the French royals considered food close to the earth as the peasant food so they’d eat the food that didn’t touch the ground such as fish, poultry, tree fruits, etc. Peasants may have eaten healthier bc they actually ate veggies haha! Also, I can’t find the time period (maybe 14th century?), but French nobility had a very complicated seating hierarchy tied to social class with different ranks of chairs from thrones and armchairs at the high table all the way down to folding chairs and stools at the long tables.
All this has shown me is that you can eat perfectly healthy and still die in your 40s.. the real reason we are living longer is our advancements in medicine..
Looking how spices were worth alot of gold, I'm surprised no one ever made a scene of a medieval thief instead stealing gold/jewels, they go after the spices of nobles.
British got all the civilization because of India… food culture anything… Talk about the words of Oxford dictionary.. achar, manuscript (came from the word MANUSMRITI) pajama, paratha,raaj.. only LOOT is the word coming from English language… Thanks
and now consider that we the plebs, just as they gave the victorians celluloid products to pretend they were rich (ivory fakes), we too have been given the consumer-illusion, that we too are like the nobles. eating sugar and tea, refined breads. meanwhile, now the rich are eating whole grains and hand made breads etc. so funny how things change. so depressing. ive watched this video many a time now. thanks as always.
no wonder robin hood stole from the rich
How did James May do this youtube while producing SEAMAN?
Rabbits were called coneys in mediaeval times
(Talking about fork)
English: In England they're considered to be nasty foreign french things …& we don't like french.
French: Ok boomer!
pee taste wth
My French teacher had me research into the transition between the strong castles and the fancier renaissance castles in France. I found a bunch of cool things about food and etiquette and such! One fact is that the French royals considered food close to the earth as the peasant food so they’d eat the food that didn’t touch the ground such as fish, poultry, tree fruits, etc. Peasants may have eaten healthier bc they actually ate veggies haha! Also, I can’t find the time period (maybe 14th century?), but French nobility had a very complicated seating hierarchy tied to social class with different ranks of chairs from thrones and armchairs at the high table all the way down to folding chairs and stools at the long tables.
Your voice sounds like James May
Who thinks jason is rather charming and handsome? I certainly do!
Aside from the pee tasting everything seems pretty good stuff
It makes me nervous that most of the time I can not see the table.
All this has shown me is that you can eat perfectly healthy and still die in your 40s.. the real reason we are living longer is our advancements in medicine..
I just came across this, and I will be watching the rest tomorrow
Looking how spices were worth alot of gold, I'm surprised no one ever made a scene of a medieval thief instead stealing gold/jewels, they go after the spices of nobles.
Our host looks a bit like a younger John Noble as the Stewart of Gondor. 🤣
The simplicity of removing sugars from the diet because urine tasted sweet is so funny to me.
did they make high chair to eat
having the access that we do to spices these days, we are spoiled
obviously not very healthy, all the medieval people died..
British got all the civilization because of India… food culture anything… Talk about the words of Oxford dictionary.. achar, manuscript (came from the word MANUSMRITI) pajama, paratha,raaj.. only LOOT is the word coming from English language… Thanks
and now consider that we the plebs, just as they gave the victorians celluloid products to pretend they were rich (ivory fakes), we too have been given the consumer-illusion, that we too are like the nobles. eating sugar and tea, refined breads. meanwhile, now the rich are eating whole grains and hand made breads etc. so funny how things change. so depressing. ive watched this video many a time now. thanks as always.
I wish these two were my parents
tastes piss
"Its a bit tart, someones not getting their after breakfast biscuit"
The Chinese invented the fork, not Italians.
Small correction, she says Cassia 'Cinnamomum cassia' is not Cinnamon but it is.
Is that woman immortal? Talking to her like she lived in the medieval times
Gout was know as the "the rich man's disease" for a reason.
As someone from India, I can relate to those 3 Kinds of Peppers 😀
We use all 3 of them in a Typical Indian dish !!!
I'm not Canadian, stop recommending me boring shit.
Medieval celebrity chef to his kitchen-hands:
"The dish thou hast prepared is indubitably under-cooked."
The background music is annoying (:
Spices: Because royalty often had pica, a symptom of madness…
– Gaius
Thumbs up for the glass from Czech Rep. (Bohemia) 😉
Wow, i think i enjoy this channel more than i should.
That bread is way too white. They didn’t have bleached refined flour.