{"id":8095,"date":"2021-12-03T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=193908"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:52:14","slug":"christmas-feasts-episode-1-medieval-tudor-revelry","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/christmas-feasts-episode-1-medieval-tudor-revelry\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas feasts, episode 1: Medieval &amp; Tudor revelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 03 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\" font-weight:=\"\">From brawn to plum pottage, Annie Gray takes us back to the raucous world of festive feasting in the medieval and Tudor eras. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, for the first episode in our new mini-series on Christmas food through history, she also touches on subversive merrymaking, spectacular dinnertime entertainments and hefty meat pies.<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-193908-2&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Annie_Gray1-efaea49.mp3?_=2&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Annie_Gray1-efaea49.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Annie_Gray1-efaea49.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Next episode: <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/georgian\/christmas-feasts-episode-2-georgian-elegance\/&quot;\">Georgian elegance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <h4><strong>Inspired to cook up some treats from the past? Browse our <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/tag\/recipes\/&quot;\">historical recipes<\/a>:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/victorian\/historical-recipe-nesselrode-pudding\/&quot;\">Nesselrode pudding<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0a delicious Victorian alternative to traditional Christmas pudding<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/tudor\/historical-recipe-buttered-beere\/&quot;\">Buttered beere<\/a>\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0a sweet, slightly alcoholic drink that warmed the cockles in Tudor times<\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p><strong>Annie Gray is the author of <i>At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food through the Ages<\/i> (Profile Books, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/at-christmas-we-feast-festive-food-through-the-ages\/9781788168199&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/At-Christmas-We-Feast-Festive\/dp\/1788168194?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/at-christmas-we-feast\/annie-gray\/9781788168199&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/christmasfeasts-medieval-tudorrevelry\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Friday, 03 December 2021 at 12:00 am From brawn to plum pottage, Annie Gray takes us back to the raucous world of festive feasting in the medieval and Tudor eras. 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