14th Century Food

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Our meal contains 3 courses: Cabbage Soup, Chicken in Almond Gravy, and bread pudding for dessert. It is a meal that would be eaten by a higher class citizen of the time period that we chose(14th century England during the fall). Food impacted this society quite a bit and they held a high importance for a tasty meal. In extreme cases like a famine, many farmers would have to resort to killing their horses or other farm animals to eat. Places that were even worse off at the time often devolved to cannibals. This generally only occurred however, when Europe was plagued with either famine or disease. During this time period, your class mostly was what decided what you could eat. Although there would be festivals, your class generally controlled your diet. For example, the upper class' (lords and nobles) breakfast would occur at about 6 to 7 in the morning and consist of white bread, three meat dishes, three fish dishes, and wine or ale to drink. Peasants would would have some dark bread(usually rye) and ale to drink at sunrise. For dinner,…show more content…
The lower class usually consumed common foods that were quite bland while the upper class would eat more exotic foods, they would eat too much, and not have enough healthy foods. My group focused on 14th century foods(specifically in England but that's not as important) which was about when a change started to occur in foods. People started to import spices to flavor and color their foods, and they began to eat different types of food. Trade started to increase and the economy flourished. When new cultures met, information was learned, and food flavor became more and more accentuated. As the economy became stronger and people began to rise out of the lower class, people could start to afford desserts such as a fine course of fish, or Iusshell as a dessert. Food helped build culture and economy and the culture and economy shaped

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