This has all been known for years and years. It’s not like we don’t have written records of recipes. Bottom line...you eat what’s available.
Perhaps the fat peasants were kept food diaries in order to facilitate weight loss. They should look for their food diaries. Or maybe look for Ye Olde Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centers.
I read that most peasants ate Pheasants.
They probably at freshly killed chicken, other animals, fresh vegetables and fruits, ate better and healthier than the rich folk.
They actually had menus?
Between the beef and mutton stew, and the green cheeses, we can be quite sure they were not vegan.
In other words, the latest scientific analysis confirms what we knew from written sources and common sense.
Beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, as my late father used to say.
Four fried chickens and a coke.
“My love don’t bring me presents
I know she ain’t no pheasant”
There is a BBC miniseries readily accessible on YouTube called, “Supersizers Go.” A restaurant critic and his comedienne sidekick look at the dietary trends of different eras in British history. Pretty fascinating and entertaining stuff.
Back in my younger days when I lived in Boston, there was a place called the Medieval Manor. Fun place to go. I had a couple bachelor parties there. Wenches went around serving drinks (both kinds of beer - light and dark) and you ate beef with your fingers out of a trencher (bread). If you had to use the bathroom, you had to get permission from the King - who always gave you a hard time.
I thought real archaeologist dug up out houses and such waste pits to determine what someone ate.
I wish I knew how to put up a picture of a Big Mac.
Hard to fathom that, not that long ago, most folks were fully occupied with finding enough food to live until tomorrow.
Sounds good to me!
Paleo plus dairy.
I thought they ate cake.
If you think about all the different variations and derivations of the word “pot” - which means “vessel” or “container,” originally for cooking, then you can realize the importance of the cooking pot for ancient societies — these were like refrigerators, boiling and restocked constantly with new ingredients as found.
Not only did the cooking pot store and preserve food, it provided more nutrition, as vegetables yield more nutrients when cooked slowly than if eaten raw.
I thought it was well known what the medieval peasant had to eat, just not the ratios. Modern popular history preaches that peasants mostly lived on vegetable pottage (stew), with a little dried and pickled meat and fish if they were lucky, but fresh meat only on high days and holidays?