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How the Tudors dealt with food waste

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par Eleanor Barnett, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University

More than ten million tonnes of food is wasted in the UK each year. Leftovers perish in their plastic Tupperware tombs, supermarket bins heave with damaged but perfectly edible produce and fields are littered with spoiled harvests. Preventing good food from ending up in the bin is an important part of the global fight against climate change.

But what about the past? How did our ancestors deal with food waste? Surprisingly, given the pertinence of…

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