Food and Household Flashcards
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Q
The higher classes displayed their wealth at banquets with…
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Richly spiced food and bright colours such as yellow (saffron/egg yolk).
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Q
The person highest in the hierarchy would sit nearest the…
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Salt cellar
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Q
Nicole Crossley-Holland is one of many historians who now say that…
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Medieval people did not use spices to cover the taste of rotting meat, nor were their palates simply undeveloped.
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Q
Menagier de Paris on labourers food
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All of them, large or small, took great delight in dry bread, garlic and salt. They ate no mutton, beef, goose or fowl.
