Food In The Elizabethan Era

The economy of New England was very poor due to bad weather, poor rocky soil and a short growing season. Colonists were able to grow enough food to feed their families but also had to save some for trades and manufacturing’s so they could earn livings. Like was said before, the colonists took advantage of their many trees and seaports and used it for capturing fish, whales and cut trees to build boats. This region mainly concentrated on manufacturing since they had poor, unprofitable conditions for agriculture such as farming. The plantation agriculture in the southern colonies had a huge impact on colonists. Since the climate was great, there was a long growing season and extremely good fertile soil they were able to grow many crops throughout the year. They earned their living by trading crops they grew such as wheat, Tobacco, corn, etc. Tobacco was a very profitable crop for the southern colonists. The middle colonies also had a very good agriculture. They had good weather, very good soil and a long growing season like the southern region. They grew corn, wheat, vegetables, grain and livestock. The colonists’ main source of making was bread. The middle colonists also focused on manufacturing iron ore like no other of the three

Some of the foods and animals that came from Europe to the Americas were bananas, coffee, cows, sheep, rice, horses, pigs, pears, wheat, turnips, lettuce, peaches, oranges, and lemons. Those are some of the foods and animals that came from Europe to the Americas. Some stuff that came from the Americas to Europe was, corn, cotton, papayas, peanuts, pumpkins, vanilla beans, marigolds, pineapples, and avocados. There are a lot more of food that came from the Americas to Europe.

There were many new plants discovered in the Americans (beans, squash, chili peppers, sunflowers, chenopods, peanuts, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, manioc, avocado, pineapple, and cacao), however the most prime crops were potatoes and maize (corn). Many crops were also brought to the New World from the Old world, the most important was the sugar cane.

Other foods such as, wild grapes, jack rabbits, wood rats, yucca fruit, wild potatoes, juniper, berries and mountain sheep were eaten all the time.

The New England Colonies had a strong economy due to it's location and ability to trade by ships. Ship building was also a very huge part of the economy. Lumber from nearby forests was used to create large ships that would only be sold in England or Britain. There were also many craftspeople who contributed greatly to the economy by owning small businesses. Some of the crafts included blacksmiths, shoemakers.

In the early 1800s we created a very impressive railroad and canal systems. This made trade much easier. One doesn’t need to grow crops if they have something they can trade for crops. This increased trade allowed people to not have to grow their own crops or raise their own livestock. By the 1860s and 1870s the Union Stockyard and Armour meat packing company were opened. This along with ice preservation, allowed individuals to get slabs and cuts of meat, rather than the entire animal. This allowed Americans to be further away from the food process by allowing them to not have to kill, skin, or divide up animals into edible slices of

They also fished as their source of food. They hadas human resources skilled craftsmen, shopkeepers, and shipbuilders. These people of the New England colony specialized in whaling, fishing, shipbuilding, industry, and naval supplies. WE traded with the southern colony for cotton, and other materials in order to manufacture our goods. They also depended on the Mid Atlantic colonies for their livestock and grain.They trade to the Mid Atlantic colonies the goods they don't produce themselves. The Boston harbor became a great big center of commerce.

Still, they had other means of earning money such as producing paper, textiles, and iron ore products such as plows, tools, kettles, nails, and blocks of iron in factories. Their source of lumber for ship building was provided for by the forests that surrounded the region and their trade of manufactured goods and natural resources was often done with Great Britain and sometimes other European countries. The Middle Colonies’ diverse economy was most beneficial for families as they were then able to provide for themselves in a variety of ways.

One of the important things during the time of the Renaissance was food. Food was very important to the people. They cooked and served food in a unique way. Others had ovens and others did not. Others who did not have ovens, they cooked their food over an open flame. In Renaissance times, food relied on what your social class is. There were the upper class people and lower class people. The upper class people had more choices of what they wanted to it and the lower class people didn’t have many choices of what they wanted to eat. Some of the foods were expensive. For them to have food they had farm. The upper class owned farms and they planted crops and harvested the crops for food. They raised animals for them to have meat and milk.

*Foods such as vanilla ice cream, florida oranges, irish potatoes, and much more, came through from the food trade of the Europeans and north America.

Since the New England colonies were in a close proximity of the sea the colonies depended heavily on trade and fishing. New England participated in the Triangular Trade, exporting goods such as lumber, fish, horses and flour then in return the West Indies would supply the colonies with sugar, molasses, and rum. (Shmoop Editorial Team. "Economy in Colonial New England." Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc.,

People were always growing fresh vegetables on their farms. The earlier settlers could only bring small livestock like chickens. However, the Native Americans taught the colonists how to hunt for food like birds and deer. With this knowledge, the colonists could make meals containing meat, and not have to rely on their livestock. People did, however, bring cows, sheep, and goats to the New World. They usually were not eaten, and were just used for their milk. Sheep, however, were used for their wool mostly, and were only eaten in an emergency. Later on, colonists began to catch fish (INTEXTHINDSKATHRYN). Seafood was also very popular in colonial times after the colonists learned to catch fish. Except during Winter, colonists could obtain berries and ate them as a snack. Later on, Spain and the West Indies imported sugar, fruits, vegetables, and other goods, which started to turn food into a source of enjoyment. After a long journey of importation, people would use vinegar or salt to preserve the food so that it wouldn’t go bad. Getting and preserving food might have seemed hard normally, but it was a whole different story when it came to

The article, “Economy in Colonial New England” talks about the economy in the New England colony, it says “In contrast to the southern colonies, which could produce tobacco, rice, and indigo in exchange for imports, New England's colonies couldn't offer much to England beyond fish, furs, and naval stores.” The New England colonies used the fishing and the construction of boats to maintain economically. They made soap, clothing and candles. Its exports fish, whale products, boats, wood products, furs, maple syrup, copper, horses, beer and whiskey. They had problems with agriculture, it was difficult to plant wheat because the quality of nutrients on the land was poor, but corn, pumpkins, rye and beans had better

Every year, Li’s family struggled to survive with the limited amount of food that was accessible. Poverty surrounded them. They couldn’t get away from it. Li remarked, “There was never enough food to feed the people, let alone the pigs.” They may have owned pigs and chickens but they could never provide them with enough food to fatten them up to eat or for them to produce eggs. Eggs were a rarity. Meats in their diets were uncommon. They mainly “ate a lot of dried yams. They were the easiest things to grow.” They lived off yams. They relied on yams as their food source. Everything they could “grow and earn from the land depended on the weather and luck.” Every family received basic foods that the government controlled. They were “allocated a very small quantity of meat, seafood and eggs, along with oil, soy sauce, sugar, salt, wheat, and cornflour, rice and also coal each month.” The Li family tried their best to preserve as

Crops were transported over from the New World, such as Potatoes, tomatoes, squashes, pumpkins, beans, and other vegetables that drastically changed the European diet. Before the arrival of said plants the European diet relied on grain, mostly wheat, even this was hard to come by as there was not land to farm on. Cargo ships coming from the New World brought other resources needed for the growing industrial Europe, ship timbers, hemp rope, tar, furs, dyes such as indigo and red Brazil wood, dried fish, flaxseed oil, hides, and a mass of other materials.