/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>medieval food
it's soup.
it's porridge and it's soup.
you're throwing grains and roots and veggies into a pot over a fire.
there are a lot of turnips and cabbages and other treats you pull out of the root cellar.
you put bones and animal carcasses in the pot when you have them and take them out before serving. it makes the water tasty.
if you're not totally destitute and impoverished, you can take a few coppers to the baker and buy a loaf of bread.
you dip the bread in the soup or you toast a slice over the fire and put it in the bottom of the bowl before pouring the soup over it.
you eat beans a lot.
beans go in the soup
beans go on the bread. sometimes both
you eat meat. fish is for poor people. you're not completely impoverished, but you're no wealthy Genovese merchant either. you eat a lot of fish
you eat meat when a chicken no longer produces eggs, a cow no longer produces milk, a sheep gets too old
you eat a lot of dairy. cheese is a significant source of protein in your diet
you eat meat when you go hunting.
you eat bread and cheese when you go hunting.
you have a lot of free time most of the year.
you are a serf. your lord doesn't work you to death. you are very busy in early spring and mid-autumn but the rest of the year you have a lot of free time to forage and hunt.
you are 30 years old. you die 2 years from now from tuberculosis. you have 6 living children. 3 of your daughters died in child birth at 14, 13, and 15 respectively. 2 other daughters died of tuberculosis. 1 son died of tuberculosis. 3 sons died before their first birthday.
life is short but it's very simple and very peaceful. there is a lot of fresh food everywhere. there is as much fresh food as there is death.