Summaries

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, King Richard II's 700-year-old scroll "The Forme of Cury", and compares its contents with the way we eat today, as well as re-creating some of the dishes for a group of food and medieval history experts.—thomaswake16

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Keywords
  • food
  • king
  • reenactment
  • royalty
  • cookbook
Genres
  • History
  • Documentary
Release date May 6, 2008
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Official sites BBC Four
Language English
Production companies British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Optomen Television

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Runtime 29m
Color Color
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