Next to the oven is a large cooking pot full of chicken stew. Children are watching Kevin, our cook,peeling white carrots.”Why are the carrots white?” they ask’Because that’s what Vikings are ,’
Kevin tells them.’This is an authentic Viking stew. Orange carrots didn’t appear in England until 1700.We only use what they would have used.’
I can eat a plate of stew,thank goodness.Food at last.I tear the chicken leg apart with my bare hands.The hot juices run down my chin.Wonderful!