Food and Feast in Tudor England

Popular representations of the Tudors at table have caricatured them as loud, gross & lacking any manners. This is actually far from the case, as food & dining were used as social display by the upwardly mobile. For those with money, meals became extravagantly sophisticated, with a staggering number of courses & breathtaking table displays. Even those lower down the social scale enjoyed some of the benefits of increasing prosperity & the new markets which England¿s merchants exploited. Also explores Tudor ideas about healthy eating, & the health-giving properties of certain ingred. Etiquette, too, was treated with seriousness in this period, as those who wished to impress a potential patron or benefactor were keen to show off their good manners. Illus.Sim, Alison is the author of 'Food and Feast in Tudor England', published 2008 under ISBN 9781422391884 and ISBN 1422391884.