Today's illustration from Courting Trouble shows a cook stirring a pot over an open fire. There will be more about the kitchen and food in future posts, but for today I'll quote a few lines from the feast Cynethrith observes on her first night at court.
Each diner ate according to his station, with the best dishes and the greatest amount reserved for the head table. The hall servants dished out stew from the cauldron and placed one bowl between each foursome at the low tables. I carried in a large dish of two dozen young pigeons for a mid-ranking table, the birds culled before they learned to fly so their flesh was fat and succulent.
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