Visit Hampton Court Palace’s Kitchen Garden For Free — londonist.com

We visit a restored kitchen garden at the west London palace. When ‘food’ is mentioned in the same sentence as ‘Hampton Court’ what generally springs to mind are Henry VIII’s massive Tudor kitchens, groaning with hogs heads, venison and enough pies to satisfy an army. An army that, when not actually fighting potential invaders, spent much of its time playing at it, jousting in the tilt-yards round the back. But if Henry was happy to live on a diet of red meat and machismo, by the time the later Stuarts took over, they were ready for some veg.

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