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Some genuinely olde English food… Peter Brears is an expert on authentic cooking methods. --Daily Express
Spare a thought for chefs in Tudor times, when a feast could take the whole day to prepare and would typically include 6 courses. --Yorkshire Evening Post
Peppered with easy-to-recreate recipes... which can t help but stoke the fires of the imagination. --Observer
Spare a thought for chefs in Tudor times, when a feast could take the whole day to prepare and would typically include 6 courses. --Yorkshire Evening Post
Peppered with easy-to-recreate recipes... which can t help but stoke the fires of the imagination. --Observer
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The massive kitchens at Hampton Court were built to supply the entire household of King Henry VIII. They were the first professional kitchens organised on such an industrial scale, encompassing larders, bakehouses, wine cellars and butteries they employed hundreds of staff. Each day vast quantities of meat, fish and fowl were cooked, while the wonder of the age was the delicate sugar modelling that Tudor cooks specialised in. Peter Brears provides a practical guide to how these kitchens were run, dispelling many of the misconceptions about the table manners, quality of cooking and serving of meals in Tudor England. Including authentic recipes from the period, adapted for modern kitchens, such as Chicken Farced and Smothered Rabbit and White Leach (a form of cool jelly), All the King s Cooks is fully illustrated with colour photographs recreating the life of the kitchens, and with the author s own detailed drawings no other book gets so close to the sights, sounds and smells of the Tudor kitchen.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Peter Brears intersperses a thorough examination of Henry VIII's kitchens at Hampton Court with recipes drawn from period sources.
The palace kitchens at Hampton Court were a large-scale industrial enterprise that fed 600-1200 people every day - everyone from the lowliest servant to the King himself. The author does a grand job of describing how the system procured, stored, and prepared immense amounts of raw materials each day.
Interspersed with the description are recipes drawn from contemporary sources that are similiar to what might have been served at the palace. The author also covers Tudor table manners, etiquette, and the ceremony involved in feeding the monarch.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
very interesting insight into the menus prepared for Henry VIII's court and how they were cooked and served -
based on the reconstruction of the kitchens at Hampton Court -
just about almost any creature that could be found in England at that time seems to have been sourced for the menu -
but not a lot of your "5-a-day fruit and veg." -
there are a number of useable or adaptable receipes at well - some look quite tasty -
and now we know why Henry VIII put on so much weight
based on the reconstruction of the kitchens at Hampton Court -
just about almost any creature that could be found in England at that time seems to have been sourced for the menu -
but not a lot of your "5-a-day fruit and veg." -
there are a number of useable or adaptable receipes at well - some look quite tasty -
and now we know why Henry VIII put on so much weight
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A combination cookbook and industrial history
28 Feb 2002
Format:Hardcover
Peter Brears intersperses a thorough examination of Henry VIII's kitchens at Hampton Court with recipes drawn from period sources.
The palace kitchens at Hampton Court were a large-scale industrial enterprise that fed 600-1200 people every day - everyone from the lowliest servant to the King himself. The author does a grand job of describing how the system procured, stored, and prepared immense amounts of raw materials each day.
Interspersed with the description are recipes drawn from contemporary sources that are similiar to what might have been served at the palace. The author also covers Tudor table manners, etiquette, and the ceremony involved in feeding the monarch.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A must-have reference on Tudor-era eating and palace kitchen organization
27 May 2011
Format:Hardcover
Peter Brears' All the King's Cooks: The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace is a fascinating read and an absolute must-have reference for anyone interested in Tudor-era foods and eating and/or in royal palace kitchen organization. The level of detail is astonishing and Brears writes with an intimacy of understanding that comes from both his background as a food historian and from his practical hands-on experience conducting cooking demonstrations in the actual preserved kitchens at Hampton Court Palace.
Brears has also included an astonishing number of period and current-day illustrations that are invaluable in understanding how the kitchens were laid out, what they looked like, how the people who worked in them dressed, what their tools and utensils looked like, what table settings looked like, and what some of the food looked like once it had been prepared.
Highly, highly recommended for anyone with an interest in historical cooking, dining routines and etiquette, and in how royal kitchens were organized to fulfill their vital functions.
Brears has also included an astonishing number of period and current-day illustrations that are invaluable in understanding how the kitchens were laid out, what they looked like, how the people who worked in them dressed, what their tools and utensils looked like, what table settings looked like, and what some of the food looked like once it had been prepared.
Highly, highly recommended for anyone with an interest in historical cooking, dining routines and etiquette, and in how royal kitchens were organized to fulfill their vital functions.
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