Imagine looking at a table covered in food. Ale, wine, bread, a variety of seafood and meat, and more, creating a mouthwatering aroma. Before you begin, you rinse your hands off with water. What you are looking at is a regular feast for nobles. Rinsing your hands is one pre-meal tradition. There were many foods, feasts, and pre-meal celebrations in Medieval Europe There were specific drinks that were common in Medieval times. They drank grape juice, ale, beer, wine, and ginger ale. The poor drank ale, beer, and grape juice. Nobles drank ale, beer, wine, ginger ale, and grape juice in Medieval Europe. They served less expensive drinks than they drank themselves. Brewing ale was a domestic activity of women. The staple food of