Vegetable Lamb News Today

Life for people in the Middle Ages contained many difficulties that we can only imagine today. With their lack of technology and limited knowledge of the wider world, Medieval Europe...

The search for faux meat goes back thousands of years in the pursuit of lambs that grew on vines and birds that sprang from tree pods.

Despite sounding distinctly wooly, this was a real belief – presumably much to the bemusement of farmers tending their flocks

His book, known as The Travels, inspired Christopher Columbus and every peculiar detail from far-off lands was widely believed for centuries. But was the medieval knight turned explorer actually a fraudulent fantasist or rampant plagiarist? Writer Giles Milton goes looking for the real Sir John Mandeville...