I read that this “spoiled meat” story is pretty overblown. And it doesn’t pass the sniff test either. Most meat was probably eaten right after slaughter, because why wouldn’t you?
Also herbs must have been cheaply available. I also recently learned that every household in medieval Europe had a mother of vinegar.
In the Odyssey, every time they eat meat, the slaughter happens right beforehand. There were (are?) African herding tribes who consume blood from their living livestock rather than slaughtering it for meat. Tribes in the Pacific Northwest dried their salmon for later in the year.
I read that this “spoiled meat” story is pretty overblown. And it doesn’t pass the sniff test either. Most meat was probably eaten right after slaughter, because why wouldn’t you?
Also herbs must have been cheaply available. I also recently learned that every household in medieval Europe had a mother of vinegar.
In the Odyssey, every time they eat meat, the slaughter happens right beforehand. There were (are?) African herding tribes who consume blood from their living livestock rather than slaughtering it for meat. Tribes in the Pacific Northwest dried their salmon for later in the year.