13th Century Foodie Advice!

 

Spices were definitely not added to food to mask the taste because it was rotten. That's a myth. It constantly amazes me how with all the really good info we have out in the wider world in the last 2 decades that ideas like this still make the "Top 10 things you didn't know about the Middle ages" along with ones about hygiene and other nonsense.

 

This 13th century foodie advice comes from Bartholemew Anglicus from his treatice, On the Properties of things," and from Medieval Household Hints compiled and photographed by yours truly!