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Elizabethan Food Presentation - the Visual Effect
Baking, Boiling, Salting, Frying
Smoking, and Spit Roasting were the most common cooking methods in that time period
(http://rayburnshakespeare.wikispaces.com/Eunjung )
Cooking methods
Because nobles during the Elizabethan era looked down on fruits, vegetables, and dairy their diet lacked many important vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin C, calcium, and fiber. This lack of nutrition led to a variety of health problems, such as bad teeth and skin diseases. (http://www.ehow.com/way_5731095_elizabethan-food-diet.html )
What did the poor eat ?
The poor consumed a diet largely of bread, cheese, milk, and beer, with small portions of meat, fish and vegetables, and occasionally some fruit. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era )
What did the wealthy eat ?
At a somewhat higher social level families ate an enormous variety of meats, especially beef, mutton, veal, lamb, and pork, as well as chickens, and ducks. The holiday goose was a special treat. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era )
Elizabethan Food Presentation - the Visual Effect
Elizabethans enjoyed a variety of serving methods, colors and various 'props'. Peacocks were reared for consumption but their feathers were used to decorate cooked foods. Strange and unusual shapes were used in food presentation. (http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-food.htm#undefined )
Image by Tom Mooring