The English Renaissance had many types of food for example
- Allspice - a New World food item, also called Jamaican Pepper.
- Artichokes
- Bananas - known about, but still a foreign fruit and considered exotic.
- Broccoli
- Chili Peppers
- Chocolate - New World discovery.
- Cocoa - New World.
- Coffee - did not reach Europe until after the middle Ages.
- Cranberries
- Green Beans
- Green Peppers
- Iceberg Lettuce - modern development of the lettuce
- Indian corn -our modern corn, the large cobs with yellow, white, or brown kernels.
- Kiwi fruit.
- Margarine - an invention of the modern food-chemistry industry.
- Peanuts
- Pineapple
- Potatoes - despite their association with Ireland, potatoes originally came from South America made popular late in the Renaissance.
- Red Peppers (capsicums)
- Yellow Peppers
- Rhubarb - like the banana, possibly known about but never used.
- Shortening - an invention of the modern food-chemistry industry.
- Tea - did not reach Europe until after the middle Ages.
- Turkey - Turkey is a New World food that reached Asia Minor only after 1500 and did not come into general use in Europe until well after the Renaissance.
- Tomatoes - a member of the Nightshade family, it was considered inedible or poisonous.
- Vanilla Bean
- Yams - New World.
I learned that they were so many different foods they created back then. But look at us now we kind of use their same foods they did because like we use the yellow peppers for Chile it’s like were living the past.
Hey Sophia
ReplyDeleteYou did a nice job in your blogs. I research the same thing about food and I was surprise when I saw the entire thing that they use to cook there food to. I do agree with you that it like if we are living the past again because all the stuff that we use to cook the Renaissance would use it to. It’s so weird how they thought that the tomatoes were poisonous and in today’s world people us the tomatoes for almost everything. It’s also weird how the bananas back then the Renaissance thought it was exotic. Well keep it up on your blogs you did a very nice job on then.