I read somewhere that the rich, ie the type who owned castles didn't think much of vegetables and believed meat was the only food worth eating. I also read that they regularly suffered from chronic constipation. Serves em right. This doorway therefore was clearly designed for the non meat eaters, or thin folk, then again it might have been an arrow slit. Built just in case the non meat eaters ever acquired a taste for meat, sort of as a means of keeping them from the high table. In those times it was also a capital crime to poach deer though personally I've always preferred it roasted.
7 comments:
what a wonderful picture!
poaching good venison should still be a capital crime. goes to show how standards have ebbed through the centuries.
So what you're saying is that it should be ok to roast a poached venison but poaching a venison to poach it should be a crime?
Man, all this blog reading in foreign languages is getting harder and harder!
'O, why thank you very much.
Hayden,
I agree entirely, anyone who poaches venison deserves to be poached themselves. Of course that's only my humble opinion.
D,
That is exactly what I'm saying. Poaching meat is not a good idea, you lose the flavour in the water you see. And as for the languages, well mate, you must speak two or three languages which makes you very learned. Whereas I am still struggling to learn French. Of course the French would never poach venison because they know what to do with meat.
Kathy,
Who knows about these things?
Sorry now for being a real camera bore, I've just purchased a Nikon D50 Digital SLR and love it so much I could spit. And it takes such fantastic photos in low light (this window was in an unlit cellar) and the software then enables the image to be manipulated so stuff that initially appears blacked out can be highlighted. Incredible.
Nevertheless thanks for visiting my little blog. and the kind words.
Where is this exactly?
Buffy,
Helmsley Castle in East Yorkshire, on't edge of North Yorkshire Moors, aye.
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