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Anonymous wrote:Lucy Worsley, who has hosted numerous amazing tv specials, hosted one on Victoria and Albert’s wedding and went into great detail about the good and how it was prepared. Highly recommend watching!

+1 I adore all of her documentaries!

I also love the Supersizers series with Giles Coren and Sue Perkins. It's all about the different foods people enjoyed from the various periods of history. They are so fun to watch!

Lucy Worsley poster from above. Agreed. Adore all her documentaries!!! I think the Tudor Christmas one also went into food, but I may be mixing that up with the Royal Palaces.

I can’t WAIT to watch Supersizers! Thanks for the recommendation. In addition to enjoying Sue Perkins on the Great British Bake Show I really liked her travel documentaries.

OP- which show are you watching?

I had lemon syllabub while visiting Historic Williamsburg, which was of that era. You can find recipes.on line.

This is a cool documentary on staging a ball from the Regency Period (Jane Austen) and it shows how difficult it is to replicate the elaborate party foods.

Pride & Prejudice: Having a Ball:
https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Having-a-Ball/dp/B08R96TL56

Anonymous wrote:Lucy Worsley, who has hosted numerous amazing tv specials, hosted one on Victoria and Albert’s wedding and went into great detail about the good and how it was prepared. Highly recommend watching!

+1 I adore all of her documentaries!

I also love the Supersizers series with Giles Coren and Sue Perkins. It's all about the different foods people enjoyed from the various periods of history. They are so fun to watch!

Lucy Worsley, who has hosted numerous amazing tv specials, hosted one on Victoria and Albert’s wedding and went into great detail about the good and how it was prepared. Highly recommend watching!

I do actually make some 19th century or early 20th century recipes and really quite like them. My grandmother had recipes that were her grandmothers (born in 1840) and was a cook after emigrating to the US, and even some that were her mothers (born about 1816). They can be a bit rough to translate as stuff was not measured precisely.

That picture gives me hope.. they lived through the Spanish Flu and yet here they are..
Life came back to normal quite soon and lasted another 100 years...

Most of those things are wonderful to look at but don't taste that great but still LOOOOOOOVE to look at them. I got the Downton Abbey tea book and tried few things.. hahahha.. okay. I think I will stick to Continent. But love the whole fancy stuff... I think we are worth to make a beautiful lunch tray for ourselves when if we eat at the desk etc.. to add a bit of magic... very little work and so much fun...

Anonymous wrote:Check out chef Sohla’s show on the history channel. She is delightful to watch and creates historically accurate food from various civilizations.

Oh how interesting. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I think.. every American home should include a special holiday room of this size, with sole purpose to be used for the festivities. No?

Cooking? Cleaning? Inviting others? Hosting?

Already Americans are unable to cope with the pandemic. Don't give them further shocks!!!

That was a joke. That room is BIGGER then most American dwellings. Did a cat ate your sense of humor?

Check out chef Sohla’s show on the history channel. She is delightful to watch and creates historically accurate food from various civilizations.

Anonymous wrote:I think.. every American home should include a special holiday room of this size, with sole purpose to be used for the festivities. No?

Cooking? Cleaning? Inviting others? Hosting?

Already Americans are unable to cope with the pandemic. Don't give them further shocks!!!

I think.. every American home should include a special holiday room of this size, with sole purpose to be used for the festivities. No?

If you are mesmerized by those incredible creations of the old times, the dishes, deserts, table settings,
Chefs and cooks, do share your excitements and thoughts.

I am in the middle of Victoria miniseries on Amazon and can't get over the fancy Victorian stuff.
I know British are not famous for delicious food but yet Victorian stuff is famous for certain charm.

Apparently Victoria had an Italian Chef working for her.

scene from the movie



his actual kitchen


Victorian cakes mmm...







Apparently he also popularized the art of cooking..



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Oh and talking about Victoria, there is a WHOLE episode about how her husband Albert who was German introduced the tradition of Christmas to the British Royal Family and how important this was to him.
I think this is how this really spread the Christmas all over the world, once those traditions were good enough for the British Royalty they went into wide wide world..




They had one main tree hanged up from the ceiling middle of the room and many small ones on the side, one for each child. I was wondering if they will put live candles on them.. and OMG..they did...
I was clenching my pearls all the rest of the episode hoping this won't burn down "the house"..