You ate apples in the fall and leafy greens in the spring. In most places people ate small portions of meat, though not at every meal” (Pollan 86). Back then, people had a concrete idea of what it was that they were eating. They knew what was good to eat and what to avoid. And they knew where the food was actually coming from, so that wasn’t ever a mystery, as they were the ones to get the food for themselves.
According to Sugar Changed the world, “So to get the fabrics that would buy the slaves that could be sold for sugar for the English to put into their tea, the Spanish shipped silver to the Philippines, and the French, English, and Dutch sailed east to India. What we call a triangle was really as round as the globe” (37 Aronson, Marc, Budhos, Marina:). This evidence shows that while showing and explaining the central idea, the authors also respond to conflicting ideas in the text in a direct messages by pictures and other directs quotes in the text. According to Sugar Changed the world, “Even though one book after another repeats this myth, the popularity of spices had nothing to do with disguising the taste of meat or fish that had gone bad” (37 Aronson, Marc, Budhos, Marina). This evidence shows that The authors directly disagreed this idea by saying that any person who could afford sugar at the time could have also afford fresh meat and must have been very rich.
The luxuries that returned with the crusaders consisted of spices, sugar, and silk. All of these items had new and special used to the Europeans. “The silk replaced wool in the clothing of many lords and ladies. Spices were used to keep foods from spoiling”(document 8). The merchants and nobles were so pleased by these new luxuries that they wanted
The Middle Colony had fertile soil and somewhat hotter weather than New England’s. The trade in the Middle colonies is that Farmers sent goods of wheat and livestock to New
The way the people in Elizabethan Era ate in the years of 1550-1600. The kinds of food eaten depended very much on wealth and status. Poor people, in general, had humble and unvaried diets, whereas the rich of Elizabethan England ate well. The upper class people of the Elizabethan Era ate many spicy and sweet foods consisting of expensive spices and ingredients. Poor people could not afford much red meat, like beef or pork, so tended to eat white meat, like chicken, rabbit or hare, and birds they could catch like blackbirds or pigeons.
The soul food for African Americans is not only a matter of economics or habit, but also a symbol of cultural identity. The blending of techniques, ingredients, and consumption patterns that developed through the Columbian exchange made African American cuisine distinctive from others. However, because of the small number of source materials that specifically addressed culinary interaction and non-literate Africans, we cannot trace what exactly happened at that time. This is a regret for us that lost a chance insight into the old African food culture. Most of the sources come from the archaeological record or from European or Euro-American sources.
However, there was a much larger selection of crops available in the new world. They had crops such as tobacco, potatoes, corn, and more. Europe discovered that the crops brought back were much more calorically dense than the crops
These included, among other things, potatoes, corn, and tomatoes. All of these became very important to various European populations. Coming the other way were various species of animals. Since the Americans didn’t have no large domesticated sources of meat, these were important sources
There was other food in their day-to-day rations for example the meat that was offered could consist of bacon, pork, or beef. They would salt their pork so that it would have a longer shelf life and be safe to eat for longer. Some other things they had were flour and bread products. The “bread” was a dried-out cracker with longer shelf life. They also had sugar.
When the Europeans returned home, they brought home new crops which had a huge impact on their diets. While the rich had “meat heavy” diets, “the poor were relegated to mainly vegetables (Shelton, The Columbian Exchange). However, Europe’s vegetables were becoming scarce. People were becoming malnourished from the lack of vegetables. New crops from
Fish was a very important staple in the European diet because “at that time Europe was predominantly Catholic and the church required people to abstain from eating meat [not including fish] during lent and on fast days.” This resulted in the need to find new fishing grounds to provide the supply of fish needed in Europe. The finding of the abundance of fish in the North Atlantic was an extremely important discovery during this time. Although the discovery of these fish was significant, it did not force nations such as Great Britain and the French to start their colonization of North America, as ships could be sent to fish and then return back home.
The Columbian Exchange of food majorly upgraded the European's diet, not only because it added to the taste, but by also simply increasing society's ability to feed more people. Less and less people had to worry about starving, which was a large factor in the European population growth. Starvation was easily overcome through the transplantation of the New World foods. The exchange of crops strongly affected both the Old World and the New World. When the Europeans
To start with the New England and Southern Colonies got their food differently. New England had a very rocky climate and short growing season with internally made farming impossible; The Colonist that did farm only had enough food for their families and nothing more. However New England had loads of natural recourses one being wood witch made shipbuilding very big. This lead to fishing becoming very popular mean of getting food
Food of the times: Food during the Elizabethan Era varied based on status and wealth. The poor had diets of mostly bread, cheese, and drank Ale. They also ate different types of fresh and seawater fish, and also vegetables. The rich and wealthy, on the other hand, ate mostly meat, and drank wine. During the Elizabethan Era, eating meat was a sign of wealth and power.
But in the late Middle Ages, there were many wars which killed large number of people. At this time, the people of Europe were horribly facing the effects of the Black Death, which was the worst pandemics in human history. The Catholic church began to have bad reputation as the priests did not help the people during the Black Death and angered people because of their wealth. After the High Middle Ages, there were many social and economic reasons that led to the decline of the Catholic Church in Western Europe. There were many social changes that had taken place in Europe that caused the Catholic Church to lose power and popularity.
