welcome back so that was a little bit of a bold statement what do i mean by medieval peasants where generally speaking very well fed when people work the land they need energy and in order to get that energy they need to eat well so this should really be common sense and when it comes to availability of food yes there were some foods that only the noble could afford say for example sugar particularly towards the beginning of the middle ages all the way up to i want to say NUMBER_TOKEN sugar was very expensive so much so that it was considered a spice and was sometimes just sprinkled over stuff when it comes to meat the situation is very varied yes expensive cuts of game for the nobles chicken generally speaking for the nobles but a lot of farmers had pigs and they would slaughter these pigs in winter and just make bacon and eat that sausages and let's not forget fish as a form of protein salmon was readily available just go to the river and catch it as jason kingsley eloquently pointed out in this video together with this lovely guest but cod carp these would be available now pike as a fish for the aristocracy although again i'm kind of speaking very broadly here and that's why i say i will make a dedicated video because it really depends where in europe we are talking about for example olive oil was a lot more common in southern europe particularly in italy whereas in the northern countries in europe they would rather use butter for example for frying milk was drank by the common people whereas usually aristocracy will use it to cook it rather than directly drink it and again the upper class could also choose non-dairy products such as almond milk bread has been around forever there is of course a difference in the way for example the ancient romans produced bread and medieval people produced bread milling leavening and baking went through various stages of development over the centuries in roman times water power was already used to grind flower and by NUMBER_TOKEN windmills became to appear very age of empires reminiscent if you will like freaking love that game there were professional bakers even in ancient egypt all the way back to NUMBER_TOKEN bc bread was easily available white bread would be for the aristocracy whereas brown bread and wholemeal bread would be more for the poor interestingly enough of course the difference between the bread used by the lower classes and the upper classes didn't only have to do with the fact that it was brown bread versus white bread is also the fact that the white bread used for the upper class would come from finest wheats still the sort of white bread used by the medieval upper class would not be exactly like the white bread that we consumed today as at least it still contained the wheat germ that is normally removed from our modern white bread anyways the coarser the darker the bread the lower class you wear but still you had access to bread and that's carbs beet was a staple of the lower classes lots of different kinds of kale were used of course if you go to italy instead broccoli and cauliflower would be more used and yet leguments of all kinds were eaten by the lower classes and that's a lot of proteins for you there medieval society's complex clearly in a situation of famine you know that that would be different but there wasn't always a famine in europe and in fact even after the terrible black plague or the spread
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