15th century ship cuisine
A note to UK-based folks, there’s series of documentaries on BBC iPlayer about old ships that built the British empire. The first episode is about the Matthew, a ship built and skippered by John Cabot, which set sail from Bristol with a crew of 18. They took a westward course across Atlantic in search of a route from England to China, but instead bumped into Newfoundland, which was then promptly conquered. Read more
