I ask becauseI’ve been to Colonial Williamsburg, and also to Plymouth Plantation-both theme parks attempt to capture the true esence of life in past centuries. What I would like to know is:
-in the 1700’s , did most people eat hot meals?
-was colonial cooking pretty good? (Would we recognize many of the dishhes served in a typicalmeal)?
-people in colonial times (if these escaped early death as infants, and didn’t catch a dangerous disease) seemed tolive as long as us-were they well-fed?
-given the fact that there was no refridgeration (except in th wintwr months0, did many people wind up dying from food poisoning?
I had an EXCELLENT meal in Williamsburg-cooked as it would have been in 1750 or so-was that kind of food the norm for most people?
Yup. Not all that different from a farm family a hundred years later.
Some of the dishs, yeah. Many dishes haven’t changed that much.
Americans were considered to have high living standards. In contrast to crowded Britain, there was plenty of land and the soil was rich. People could easily come and farm and prosper.
People salted and smoked meat; they only ate it fresh for a short while. But in any case, meat wil keep for a few days; people actually like their meat slightly rotted.