![]() ![]() She also gives recommendations for where to find medieval-like food here in Springfield. Personally as a vegetarian I eat a lot of carrots, spinach, kale, beans, peas, and lettuce already-and that’s not unlike a typical diet in the Middle ages.” Any kind of pasta or lasagna would be white. “There just isn’t a lot of cake, ice cream, chocolate. “I like to compare a medieval diet to today’s Middle Eastern foods and Indian,” Wolbrink says. However, the food for the average person would have been much simpler. This would be the place for meats, such as rabbits which became quite ubiquitous in the Middle Ages, and goat, fish, or in Italy-eel-with special chalices for salt food served on trenchers, and no forks!” I like to compare this to a thanksgiving meal today, if your family still hauls out the good china and silver. For the wealthy there was a form of entertainment involved whether it was layered foods in the shape of an exotic animals, the jesters, or the multiple courses. ![]() When asked about food and social class in the Middle Ages, she said, “Social class is important for understanding food in the Middle Ages. In order to help us understand what peasants ate and why, we turned to history professor and Drury’s resident Medievalist, Dr. So, to help us prepare for this possibility, a few of us at The Mirror decided to cook and eat peasant food. With the growing economic disparity in America, we might all end up becoming the modern equivalent of medieval peasants. ![]() Let’s be honest: the economic future of college students is a very unsure and scary one. ![]()
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