Switched notes the cookbook used by Henry II's chefs will be put online .. something tells me food wasn't terribly exciting then, but purists rejoice.
Searching on the history of food turns up a high level view from the British Library...
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All fruit and vegetables were cooked - it was believed that raw fruit and vegetables caused disease. The Boke of Kervynge (carving), written in 1500, warns the cook to: 'Beware of green sallettes and rawe fruytes for they wyll make your soverayne seke.' (Beware of green salads and raw fruits, for they will make your master sick.') Gardeners grew fresh herbs which were used for both medical remedies and cookery, and were therefore an essential part of the nobleman's garden.
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Those lower down the social scale ate a less impressive diet. Unless you served in a large household, it would have been difficult to obtain fresh meat or fish (although fish was available to those living by the sea). Most people ate preserved foods that had been salted or pickled soon after slaughter or harvest: bacon, pickled herring, preserved fruits for instance. The poor often kept pigs, which, unlike cows and sheep, were able to live contentedly in a forest, fending for themselves. Peasants tended to keep cows, so a large part of their diets would have included dairy produce such as buttermilk, cheese, or curds and whey.
I'm going to have some chocolate now
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