The Fantastic History Of Food - 12 - The Man Who Ate King Louis XIV's Heart

12 - The Man Who Ate King Louis XIV's Heart

03/20/20 • 15 min

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William Buckland and his son Francis were two men whose goal in life seemed to be to consume every single animal on earth. From bluebottle flies to mice on toast they were not afraid to try anything put in front of them, not even a mummified king's heart!
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Throughout medieval times all the way until the 19th century, there are tales of people using food in all manner of creative ways.
We know that ultimately what we put into our bodies will have either a positive or a negative effect on our wellbeing. It has the effect of working from the inside out in a sense. In this episode we look at the ways in which people thought food could have the same positive effect on our health, but this time, from the outside in.
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Charles Darwin is one of the most famous men in history. Not as many people know about his penchant for eating almost every animal he studied, from puma to armadillo, tortoise to brown owl. Discover a whole new meaning of the phrase "survival of the fittest".
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