Nutrition History (from Parts Unknown)

In Pt.1 of Vegetable Eating in the Middle Ages, we're tracing the history of vegetable consumption in Medieval Europe following the Fall of Rome.  We'll cover the actual eating of vegetables across the three orders of medieval society(the nobility, clergy, and peasantry) and the impact liturgical fasts humoural dietetics had on vegetable eating. Episode 1 wraps up with a conversation on fruit eating in the medieval period.