Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick ...

Well, let's take this list and Medieval expert's observations as a ... which meant that the staple food, bread, was in peril. Combined with brutally cold winter weather, around 10-15% of people ...

However, the explanation most food historians seem to agree on is that beef olives look like larks (more specifically ones whose heads have been cut off ready to eat), known as "aloes" in French.