The author unfortunately concludes at the bottom that it's impossible to know what the foods really tasted like: > These early modern foods are culinary false

The author unfortunately concludes at the bottom that it's impossible to know what the foods really tasted like: > These early modern foods are culinary false friends. They seem like they'd be the same as our familiar correlates. But we can't be sure that they tasted the same. > Like so much in history, they're so close, yet just out of reach. There are several reasons, probably the most important being that the cultivars of plants they used at the time were so different that we can't know what they tasted like. Heavy selection and breeding over the course of 500 years changes a lot.