Bless you too, FRiend!
My mother, unfortunately, bought cheapo flounder (not cheap today, alas) and cooked it and we ate it with ketchup, I fear. And she wasn’t a bad cook for the most part but she just couldn’t figure out how to deal with flounder. Happier days were when she made spaghetti with crab cakes (a NYC specialty).
Medieval English Catholicism (which I study) was not only religious, it was social as well. To have lived under it seems to me to be like a beautiful dream.
You're right, so many of the things we ate growing up, because they were easy to afford are now considered delicacies (those crabcakes sound yummy!). Greens and beans in a restaurant can run a small fortune. My Mom would get a pork hock; a few cans of beans; and greens my aunts would pick in a field- then put the whole thing in a12 quart kettle; share it, and freeze the rest. I never cared for it, and it wasn't a Friday food, but everybody went nuts over it!
I'm just learning to read about history- it's so important to know. It sounds like your study must be fascinating! A world where people's lives centered around the local church; each person knew one another... There's a lot of that we could use in our communities today!
I'm participating in a genealogy project in our local library system. I even found a cousin, 5 minutes away! The library has access to ancestry dot com. It's fun! Touching history, whether it's direct family or part of our human family is a wonderful thing! God guide you in your studies, and may His Peace be with you!
Grateful 😀