SC - Thoughts on Medieval food

[maddie teller-kook]

it wasn't so much feast/famine for the upper class as it was meat or lenten
days.  remember the church did control what people could eat and when.
there were a large number of lenten days where meat could not be eaten (but
i do believe fish could be consumed so it wasn't totally vegetarian).


meadhbh
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Subject: Re: SC - Thoughts on Medieval food


>>  In our low-fat, small portion society, I think we often times forget
that 3
>oz  protions of meat are an oddity of modern culture and that the service
of
>these tiny portions to a guest even 30 yrs. ago would have been taken as an
>insult.>
>
>But isn't it true My Lord that in "the olden days" it was either feast or
>famine?'  Meat was not eaten every day as in the recent past.    So that
when
>there WAS meat, it was "feast & enjoy yourself"  And eating was a way to
keep
>healthy! (back then.)
>
>Phillipa
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