Tudor Banquets

Tudor Banquets

For the Tudors there was nothing like a good banquet to show off your wealth and social status. Professor Suzannah Lipscombe talks to Brigitte Webster about how the most superb food - and the arrival of sugar - changed Tudor habits and mores.

The Tudors loved a good banquet, to show off their wealth and social status. Guests were plied with the most superb food, made from the most expensive ingredients and displayed in the most outrageous way. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb meets Brigitte Webster to find out more about what the Tudors served at their banquets, how these feasts influenced the habits of the time, and how the availability of sugar - which was thought of as a medicine - transformed their lives (and their dental health!)