Event Recap Chat with Glen Warren of Season's Eatings Podcast

[GWarren]

Yes, plus the goose was usually cooked by the local baker. So you had to wait your turn to get one.

 

[GWarren]

Most people didn't have enough room to cook a goose at home

 

[Jeff Westover]

I didn't know that. I just assumed people bought a goose and roasted it themselves

 

[GWarren]

Unless you were very wealthy

 

[Jeff Westover]

That's fascinating. Perhaps I'm limiting myself to the images instilled in us by Dickens

 

[GWarren]

Not during Victorian times. Cooking a goose took up too many resourses for space and time

 

[Jeff Westover]

I think another angle is the foods of different time periods

 

[Jeff Westover]

What other food then, during the victorian era, had to be made or purchased outside the home?

 

[GWarren]

Yes, and as I've recently learned from your podcast. Christmas celebrations didn't start with the Victorians

 

[GWarren]

Usually the big ones, like cakes. There was always a twelfth night cake to celebrate the end of the twelve days of Christmas

 

[Jeff Westover]

Yes...is that German in origin?

 

[GWarren]

They were elaborated decorated, usually with religious symbols and people

 

[GWarren]

I'm not sure, but it's a great topic to research

 

[Jeff Westover]

In your professional experience, do you get to do any special kind of foods at Christmas today for folks?

 

[GWarren]

I've made fruitcakes for others, plus gingerbread houses.

 

[Jeff Westover]

Gingerbread -- there's another whole topics

 

[Jeff Westover]

It really is endless

 

[Jeff Westover]

How different are our modern Christmas foods from the holiday foods of the past?

 

[GWarren]

I'm thinking ginger bread and the houses are two seperate episodes

 

[Jeff Westover]

at least