
Food history: everything you wanted to know
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Are Vegetarianism and Veganism Modern Phenomenas?
In the mediaeval period we had what were known as fast days, and they were meat free er. So instead of milk, you would consume almond milk. You wouldn't set a jelly with a gelatine derived from animals like sturgeon or porpus. A lot of those foods are really, really, really good but you could eat fish. That's the crucial difference. If you're a vegetarian who eats fish, all those mediaeval recipes are perfect for you. Er, i call thomas tryon, who writes a lot of in books, and he's very much tied up with religion and about protest as well. In the nineteenth century, vegetarianism becomes associated
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