How to Cook Medieval Europe
It never occurs to me to think about yet undiscovered fruits, vegetables, flavours.
Then I found this list of foods that were generally unknown in the Middle Ages. It makes me laugh to think how all the medieval-portraying cartoons such as Sword in the Stone and Robin Hood are full of feasts of turkeys, potatoes, and bananas!
Here are some items that the European Middle Ages never tasted: bananas, spices, peppers, cocoa, coffee, peanuts, potatoes, tea, turkey, and tomatoes. Check out the entire list here.
Deee
March 22, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
I read the rest of the list and LMAO! Seriously, that is one long list.. their food options were so limited that I think they could’ve just replaced the whole thing with “If you’re having a medieval feast stick to peas and carrots!”
Don Cox
March 22, 2008 @ 5:06 pm
Various spices were known. The only one listed on that site as “not known” is Allspice.
Meat was cheaper in the Middle Ages, because there were fewer people per animal.
m7md
March 22, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
lool , really .. unlucky them :P