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  1. Haven of Health "all apples generally are unwholesome in the regiment of health, especially if they bee eaten raw.." 2:45 AM May 19th via TweetDeck
  2. Haven of Health; "that saying which is commonly used, Pears without wine are poison." 8:47 AM May 18th via TweetDeck
  3. Thomas Coghan, Haven of Health (1584) "Turneps..eaten with Porke or Beefe..nourish much and provoke carnall lust. 6:45 AM May 17th via Twitter for iPhone
  4. I-tunes U ; Science and Cooking series from Harvard 4:17 AM May 17th via TweetDeck
  5. Savonarola (c15th, gdfather of the preacher) on beans; "Surely their malice is manifest in the great stink that issues from the bung hole." 2:54 AM May 3rd via Twitter for iPhone
  6. The study of lettuce; not exactly rocket science. 2:05 AM Apr 28th via Twitter for iPhone
  7. @BlakeCreedon the beer thing is interesting. They weren't all dipsos. Maltose was the only easy source of sugar. 5:46 AM Apr 27th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to BlakeCreedon
  8. @BlakeCreedon me neither: we had a Facebook page but that was a pain in the ass. Let me speak to my gurus. Thanks for the encouragement. 5:43 AM Apr 27th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to BlakeCreedon
  9. @BlakeCreedon no problem with that. Perhaps we should talk it over. I am free for most of this pm but whatever suits 3:50 AM Apr 27th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to BlakeCreedon
  10. "Cucumbers, in the perfectly rational Renaissance mind, do indeed appear threatening" Ken . Albala, Eating Right in the Renaissance p 8 3:48 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
  11. @BlakeCreedon what does that mean? 3:41 AM Apr 27th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to BlakeCreedon
  12. Daily diet at King's College, Cambridge 1481; 1.1 lb bread, 1lb meat and 7 pints middle (6-10% alc) beer; 5,344 calories 45% from beer 3:16 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
  13. It has been suggested that Little Miss Muffett, of curds and whey fame, was the daughter of the Tudor writer on food and diet, Thomas Moffet 8:46 AM Apr 25th via Twitter for iPhone
  14. A girls' school in Northampton in the 1720s allowed 54 gallons of beer weekly for 20 girls. 7:34 AM Apr 24th via Twitter for iPhone
  15. In one 1785 English parish of 1,684 households, 36 ale houses sold 375,200 gallons of strong beer (perhaps 10%+) annually. 7:26 AM Apr 23rd via Twitter for iPhone
  16. 277 partridges, 616 cocks, 485 snipe, 840 larks, 21 gulls, 71rabbits, 23 pigeon and 2 sturgeon 8:07 AM Apr 17th via Twitter for iPhone
  17. 4 kids, 6 hares, 36 swans, 2 storks, 41 turkeys, 370 poultry, 49 curlews, 135 mallards, 354 teals, 1,049 plovers, 109 pheasants... 8:04 AM Apr 17th via Twitter for iPhone
  18. Wedding feast at the marriage of Lord Burghleys's daughter 1582 over 3 days; 1,000 gallons of wine, 6 calves, 26 deer, 15 pigs, 14 sheep... 8:00 AM Apr 17th via Twitter for iPhone
  19. The practice of smearing bread with butter probably originated in Flanders and spread to England in the 1600s. 1:19 PM Apr 1st via Twitter for iPhone
  20. In the "Great Potato Boom" in 1904/ 1905 Britain, single seed potatoes sold for up £150 each; £8,500 in today's values. 7:57 AM Mar 29th via Twitter for iPhone