🎧 Banqueting like a Tudor
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 32m
At a Tudor banquet, the hosts had the opportunity to show off their wealth and social status by serving their guests the most superb food, made from the most expensive ingredients and displayed in the most outrageous way. Suzannah is joined by Brigitte Webster to discover more about what the Tudors served at their banquets, how these feasts influenced the habits and even the architecture of the time, and how the availability of sugar - which was thought of as a medicine - transformed the lives and the dental health of the Tudors...
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