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For special events, the people had feasts. This is an ideal feast at a wedding in Italy during the Renaissance time period. Marriage arrangements were chosen by the parents, the man and women interested in marraige weren't allowed to choose their own spouse. Banquets at weddings were considered neseccary. These banquets of great quantities of food were very grand in Florence of the Medici.

Meat dishes included swan, crane, and peacock and smaller dishes consisted of heron and pheasant. Some other foods and dishes commonly eaten: pork with fried chestnuts, root vegetables (carrots, caraway, parsnips), asparagus (the vegetable that only rich people could afford), and fruits, but some doctors thought it could be bad it the fruits were eaten raw due to “poison”. Fruit was considered the last course entitled: The Fruit Course.

"Food was a matter of social class, as well as region and season." The higher class ate banquets, feasts, and meals of many different combination dishes and molden jelly. For desert, they enjoyed pastries, sweets, spiced wine, and confections. The middle class ate the same as the high class, with the exception of a few food items.The lower class ate off of bread and cheese of curds. However, servants in richer households enjoyed beef, bread, cod, pudding, and ale.

Bread was the main food item for the lower and middle classes, baked with simple and minimal amounts of wheat. The high class also ate bread, but it contained a higher wheat content. When the wealthy were done with their food, the leftover and scrap bread was soaked in sauce and given to the poor to eat.

Meat was not served everyday, but when it was, it was either served fresh or kept fresh by salting and preserving it.

"The Renaissance period uplifted culinary arts, exspecially in Italy."

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A quick look at different types of Renaissance food eaten at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire!

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