"Food on Ships | Secrets to Preserving Food" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Mar 2024 5:11 p.m. PST |
"Englishmen, and more especially seamen, love their bellies above anything else," wrote Samuel Pepys, famous 17th-century British diarist and administrator of the Navy.1Fury, Cheryl. (2002) "Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603" Accessed 22 May 2019. Wherever we travel, we need to eat and drink, and this was a crucial problem for seafaring journeys. Pepys wrote during the Age of Sail (around 1571–1862). With long voyages of many weeks and months, how did they stop food from rotting?…"
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| Pyrate Captain | 28 Mar 2024 11:31 a.m. PST |
Lots of salt, lard, and feed the weevils to the chickens. |
| Tango01 | 28 Mar 2024 3:34 p.m. PST |
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builds a cutter and a corsair, both in 1/1200 scale.