#food in medieval times

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 50: Early Modernish and Earlier 4

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration.This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[medieval-thymes]

⊱ɱε∂เεѵαℓ-ƭɦყɱεร⊰

[neopianfreshfoods]

𝔑𝔢𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔱𝔰 𝔐𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔩 𝔉𝔬𝔬𝔡: 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔐𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔩𝔩 🏰

[mcrcki]

"people are finally starting to head home." tatum said as she stood in the doorway to the kitchen, watching sanji by the fire. "you think there's anything left over? i'm starving." she'd been moving all day, having not realized how different that would be to her normal life.. you would have thought going back in time, things would slow down, and yet, she was busier than ever now.

@mischiefxmuses for sanji

[sirpeppersto]

okay so my college got evicted and they didnt tell us until today by putting a notice on the door 💀 so my cosmo license is on hold until they figure their shit out

[pancoleon]

Every time I reread ASOIAF or start reading fan theories/discussions again I am reminded of the "too much food talk" complaints and I genuinely don't get it. At no point in any of these readings have I been sat there going "shut up about the food" but apparently there's a big of people who took that away from the books. Wild.

[yourlocalsonia2]

I can brag that I have a Medival Times and Rainforest cafe in my state, and it isn't even that far.

[chadsuke]

Comics Read in 2023:

The Villainess Flips the Script! S1 by KEN (2021-22)

The Villainess Flips the Script! S2 by KEN (2022-23)

My Happy Marriage Vol. 1 by Akumi Agitogi & Rito Kohsaka (2019)

My Happy Marriage Vol. 2 by Akumi Agitogi & Rito Kohsaka (2020)

My Happy Marriage Vol. 3 by Akumi Agitogi & Rito Kohsaka (2021)

My Happy Marriage Vol. 4 by Akumi Agitogi & Rito Kohsaka (2022)

Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu Vol. 1 by Natsuya Semikawa & Virginia Nitouhei (2015)

Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu Vol. 2 by Natsuya Semikawa & Virginia Nitouhei (2016)

Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu Vol. 3 by Natsuya Semikawa & Virginia Nitouhei (2017)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

[gophergal]

I desperately want a series that focuses on restaurant owners in historical settings

Restaurants are more important to civilized history than most folks realize. There have always been travelers tired of what they've been eating on the road, folks too busy to cook, and people living in homes that don't have a proper kitchen

[wawek]

Such a cool topic! Yeah the old italian problem I assume applies to nearly all european national dishes (we didn’t have potatoes once upon a time??). I think basically all the ‘classic’ welsh dishes are post-medieval.

The 14th c diet would have been v similar to mid/southern English, excluding influence of more hills and sheep farming (already big by 14th c), so you can really look around widely. Obviously it would have been super difficult without some sort of grain finding its way into your bowl. For those living a settled life, gruel was defintely the default (as in Poland or anywhere in Europe I assume).

Local texture I can add is walking up a local mountain/hill, the Blorenge (rhymes with Orange!!!!), with my father and collecting what we’d call wimberries (commonly: bilberry, in Welsh: lluen). These aren’t grown commerically and were v likely there in 14th c. Tiny, blue, and tasty in a grassy way.

Today’s ‘welsh cakes’ are clearly products of a later age, but the idea of cooking things on a large slab of slate/stone/etc called ‘bakestones’ (‘bake stones’ are confusingly something else) is something that we could reasonably imagine being v old. Probably something like an oatcake was the proto-welsh cake. The bakestone itself might be a fun weapon in a pinch for dnd.

So yeah, a bilberry oatcake baked on a stone. An authentic treat from South Wales 14th c, maybe.

I've never used hogweed in cooking! What would you reccomend? Oh but yeah we do have shit tons of garlic, as in most of Europe. The local castle, Castell Coch, (a weird and cool 19th c pseudo-medieval build today, but was around in 14th c too), is just surrounded absolutely everywhere by the smell of wild garlic. I use the leaves in a stir-fry instead of spinach.

Omg this is all very interesting thank you for writing so much :0c!!! I really appreciate the info about bilberries and welsh cakes and bakestones, this is all so so cool!!

And to be honest i have also never used it myself jdbdjf i just have a very hazy memory of my grandma collecting and drying it in the kitchen but i have no idea what for :'3. But ive seen it in some foraging videos now and apparently you can pickle the leaves and also use em as greens in soups ect, also spinach like... and i made a mistake as well, giant hogweed was indeed imported only in the 19th century but common hogweed is native to europe and is actually where the name for one of my favourite soups "barszcz" comes from... it was originally made from that plant i had no idea :0c bc nowdays its commonly made with beets...

[error404vnotfound]

very Catalan of me to be both mad and proud when someone with a Catalan surname is credited for something

even if they are referred to as "a Spanish person"

[medieval-thymes]

⊱ɱε∂เεѵαℓ-ƭɦყɱεร⊰

[lucid-fate-if]

Can we get more of Kabot's delicious desserts in-game👉👈

I mean there is a cafeteria place within the tournament since it lasts for about a month (still plotting how long the tournament lasts exactly but so far it should be a month or two) so yeah. Y'all can discuss your next gameplan over a good Taffety Tart or Syllabub like "This rounds our win, let's get em!" 😡🥮🍧😡 "Yeah!"

[cephalon-sancti]

Napoleon vs the bunnies is my absolute favorite story about the man and, as a rabbit owner, I can confirm that they will try to climb you for food

[chaosmultiverse]

So I realized while I was working on my OC Entropy that my muse bios had been lacking in a very basic thing, somewhere to describe their body type, this has been fixed now & I went back and added that for all the muses I already made pages for

[prokopetz]

(Reposted because someone pointed out that anyone who's unfamiliar with the history of canning would probably interpret "canned food" as meaning food in modern aluminum cans and automatically vote for that one; this option has been rephrased for clarity.)