HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mediterranean Diet, Brown Bread, French Cuisine
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Hst 111: world turn upsidedown europe 1350 1789. For urban dwellers: dark brown bread: made from rye and baked once a month. Intended to be eaten by breaking a chunk of bread and place in stews / soups: new emphasis in the north of getting away from acid base diet of the. Mediterranean: start to see liking for heavy creaming sources. For example: prohibition of eating pork: proximity to religion minorities / enemies may influence other groups, food can be use as religious test. Catholic church: inquisition would call in jew/muslin and offer them pork to eat as a religious test, southern italian / mediterranean diet changes. Europe except in england: tea was stable drink in england. Down social scale and common place drink by late 17th century: coffee: come to europe from asia in late 17th century. Coffee houses were built across europe: coffe houses become suspect to political authorities and may have been primarily male affairs.
