Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era - Softcover

MacDonald, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848327471 ISBN 13: 9781848327474

Verlag: Frontline Books, 2014

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MacDonald cuts through a haze of grog and rum-fumed myth to establish what exactly was issued to British sailors in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Indeed, she does not shrink from telling tales of when the system badly went wrong, of mutinies and near mutinies over abysmal rations. But she also carefully builds a more rounded picture of what men ate (lobscouse, burgoo, and duff), how it was cooked, where it came from, and how it compared to the diet of Britons safe at home. While not enough to make you seek out your local press gang, the Royal Navy s rations, when shown in MacDonald s objective light, were not foul and were not skimpy. Fit for heroes? Perhaps not, but they kept heroes fit. And just for fun, some of the heartiest recipes are included. --Good Book Guide

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This celebration of the Georgian sailor's diet reveals how the navy's administrators fed a fleet of more than 150,000 men, in ships that were often at sea for months on end and that had no recourse to either refrigeration or canning. Contrary to the prevailing image of rotten meat and weevily biscuits their diet was a surprisingly hearty mixture of beer, brandy, salt beef and pork, pease, butter, cheese, hard biscuit and the exotic sounding lobscouse, not to mention the Malaga raisons, oranges, lemons, figs, dates and pumpkins which were available to ships on far-distant stations. In fact, by 1800 the British fleet had largely eradicated scurvy and other dietary disorders. While this scholarly work contains much of value to the historian, the author's popular touch makes this an enthralling story for anyone with an interest in life at sea in the age of sail.

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• Verlag: Frontline Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1848327471
• ISBN 13: 9781848327474
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224