Why did cooked broad bean paste become a daily food across medieval Europe?
This video explores how a simple, humble dish sustained peasants, monks, laborers, and the elderly through hunger, fasting, and hardship. From poor soil and cold climates to church fasting rules and one-pot cooking, broad bean paste reveals how survival shaped medieval diets more than taste or status.
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