SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)

[SCAbeathog at cs.com]

In a message dated 10/26/2000 12:38:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jenne at mail.browser.net writes:

<< > >"We know sketchily what peasants ate and cooked and it was a much 
simpler
 > >diet. There were fewer, if any, spices, little meat except just after
 > >harvest and usually chicken or pork. 
 > Your honest to goodness dirt grubbing peasant wouldn't have spices except 
in 
 > whatever largesse of leftover food the hall sent out. As the middle class 
 > developed, more non-nobility had spices in larger amounts. >>


Please forgive me for jumping into what may be the end of a thread, but I am 
a little confused.  Do we need to concern ourselves with what the peasants 
ate if planning a SCA feast?  Are we not all considered to be nobles?  Would 
spices, etc. known in the Middle Ages be available to us (in persona)?  Oh, 
sorry, badly stated, but hopefully not to be misunderstood...

Beathog