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Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past. Translated by Thomas, Magdalena. revised and adapted by William Woys Weaver. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3224-0. Dickie, John (2008). Delizia! The epic history of the Italians and their food. London: Sceptre. ISBN 978-0340896419.
A tavern is a type of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. An inn is a tavern that has a license to put up guests as lodgers.
By the 1370s, there were pavement cafes in the Westminster suburbs but no eating-houses proper. Inns and taverns were the first to do restaurant-like business as these establishments already had rooms with tables and chairs set aside for dining. The earliest evidence for this change is from the 1420s. Eating-houses appear around the 1550s.
1899 map showing number of public houses in a district of central London. Ale was a native British drink before the arrival of the Roman Empire in the first century, but it was with the construction of the Roman road network that the first pubs, called tabernae (the origin of modern English "tavern"), began to appear.
Historical accounts share the details of royal and affluent life, but those of everyday people are often missing, making it hard to imagine what our own lives would have been like had we been born ...
Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus depicted dining on, among other things, a fish dish and a pretzel; illustration from Hortus deliciarum, Alsace, late 12th century.. Though various forms of dishes consisting of batter or dough cooked in fat, like crêpes, fritters and doughnuts were common in most of Europe, they were especially popular among Germans and known as krapfen (Old High German: "claw ...
Louisville dining menus in the late 1800s. Hotels were popular venues for banquets and a surviving menu from one at Louisville Hotel in 1872 gives some idea what people could tuck into in the era ...
A trencher (from Old French trancher 'to cut') is a type of tableware, commonly used in medieval cuisine. A trencher was originally a flat round of (usually stale) bread used as a plate, upon which the food could be placed to eat. [1] At the end of the meal, the trencher could be eaten with sauce, but could also be given as alms to the poor.