#2 Food and Dining in Downton Abbey Times

Hi friends! I'm Karyn and this is the Family Food for Moms podcast. We're talking about inspiration for family cooking and dining. Check out our website on familyfoodformoms.com! I want to help you with the inspiration, the perspiration, and the celebration of food in your family. So often we only talk about the middle one of these, the perspiration. That's all the practical stuff. We need to plan meals, we need to shop, we need to actually cook the meals, and we need to serve them to our family. And that’s what takes up a lot of the time, but I think there's so much more to food in our families than the perspiration. The first category, inspiration, and the third category, celebration, are just as important as the practical part, the perspiration. So on this podcast, we're going to be talking about all three of these things. In today's episode we'll be talking about what we can learn about food and dining in Downton Abbey times! It's fascinating to think about these people and how they lived. It's  so different to how we live today. Today we have a very fast paced life and And in those days it was such a slow lifestyle in so many ways.  What can we learn about food and dining in the Edwardian era and around Downton Abbey times?  It wasn't so much about the food itself, although it was definitely whole food, growing their own vegetables and fruit, hunting their own venison from their land, making their own condiments,  but it was even more in the way they dined - slowly, together, being present and making it an occasion. That's what we're going to talk about today!