On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:44:43 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 12:14:25 PM UTC-5, Fruitiest of Fruitcakes wrote:

>> I don’t think Anglo Saxon cuisine was that bad.
>>
>> Remember that wild animals would have tasted much stronger than the bland
>> meat such as chicken we endure today.
>>
>> I’ve no idea what Pike tastes like, or Eels and Perch for that matter, but
>> they couldn’t have been too bad or their bones would not have been found in
>> piles around known settlements.
>>
>> Ok, so they didn’t have sugar; but they had honey to sweeten things, plus a
>> multitude of edible berries at different times of year.
>>
>> Just because there is a national myth that our ancestors lived on turnips
>> doesn’t mean we have to believe that as well.
>>
>> Wild garlic would have been plentiful in the hedgerows if they wished to add
>> it to the cooking pot.
>
>I'm pretty sure when people talk about "Anglo-Saxon" cooking, they mean
>English cooking of the 19th and 20th Century.

Yes. In the Netherlands, things slowly started to improve in the late
60s, with the French and Italian influence. Chinese too, but not so
much for home cooking. Indonesian cuisine had always been a factor.