Renaissance Food And Culture

The Tomato A pizza consists of dough, red tomato sauce, and cheese. One of those ingredients, the tomato, has a long history before it became a key ingredient in most Italian foods. At first, when Europeans received it from the Americas in the Columbian Exchange, they thought the tomato was poisonous. They stayed away from it for over 200 years.

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.

During the Renaissance time periods, people ate and drank a wide variety of foods and drinks. The food they ate was diverse because of the rich and the poor for example the rich, mostly the nobles or merchants ingested expensive meats that and the peasants ate mush or manchet. The drinks also varied if you were wealthy or poor because the wealthy drank beer, ale, or wine and the poor drank water that was unfiltered and very dirty.

The Italian culture has been developed into a staple of American life, especially with a preexisting history ingrained into communities across the United States.

The Renaissance period is known for the revival of the classical art and intellect born in ancient Greece and Rome. The Renaissance is also a time that is marked by growth, exploration, and rebirth. The Italian Renaissance started in Florence and progressively made its way into Venice and then into the great city of Rome. During the Renaissance, Rome was home to some of the most renowned works of art and the finest architectural masterpieces in the world - too many that still holds true today. Along with the delicate architecture and grand artistry, Rome was also home to a mixture of people and cultures. It is in this cultural context and through the book A Street Life in Renaissance Rome: A Brief History with Documents, that understanding how men, woman, and specifically Jews and Christians lived in Rome becomes important to better understand this period of renewal.

This is where the smells of cooked tomatoes, garlic, cheese, fresh focaccia bread, and pasta can be found in infinite bounds. Despite not having personally traveled to Italy, my connecting link to Italian cuisine can be found through this restaurant and their pasta. As Brombert (2013) explains in Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation, Italians abroad are referred to as “macaroni-eaters,” for dried pasta, or maccheroni, particularly those from the southern regions. The experience that one encounters in Pagliacci’s is very much how I would imagine restaurants in Italy to be, packed with tables close together to encourage the social environment that is so crucial to Italian culture. An essential component upon entering is of course bread, an endless supply of freshly made focaccia bread to be exact. This is in line with the Italian custom to always eat bread with a meal, for it is very much an essential component. Similar to the history of bread, in which it was used as the last stand against hunger, when eaten to excess this mouth-watering bread can come close to being a meal in it of itself. The dish that I fall back on most frequently here provides me with an intimate knowledge of the flavors of the Italian world for it involves many classic ingredients. Fresh tomatoes soaked in red wine, mushrooms, basil, and olive combined with the linguine noodle and topped with

The Italian Renaissance was a period in history unlike most others; this was an era of ingenuity, expansion, and enlightenment that would revolutionize both society as the people of the Renaissance knew it to be, and as the future generations of individuals across the globe understand it today. Florence held itself out to be the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, yet the people of this renaissance era never lost sight of the Greek and Roman heritage. The following essay will discuss the varying ways in which Florence was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and will provide the reader with examples that demonstrate Greco-Roman ideas and practices in the Italian Renaissance.

Summary: This website tells the history of food at the time of the Elizabethan Era.Poor people had unvaried diets consisting largely of bread, fish, cheese and ale, but the rich of Elizabethan England ate well.All kinds of meats were served to the rich people of Elizabethan England.Vegetables and fruits were regarded with some suspicion and was far more common for roasted and boiled meat to be accompanied with bread.Tudors were fond of desserts.Sometimes wine glasses, dishes, playing cards and trenchers were made out of a crisp modeled sugar called sugar-plate which would be elaborately decorated.

During the Elizabethan era various types of foods were eaten and extensive details were added to these foods. Social classes also played a big role in what the rich or poor ate.

The food that helps to identify the Italian culture was not drastically changed by American food. One way that their food was changed by American culture, according to Robert Woods, was that Italians consumed “a better quality and variety of food than in Italy” (Diner 51). Many Italians that immigrated to the US were able to incorporate more foods into their daily diet. For example, in Italy they would only consume meat a few times a year, but in America they had meat a multiple times a week. Also, olive oil became a main staple in many Italian-Americans’ homes. The white bread that they consumed in the States was also much better in comparison to the black bread they once ate in Italy. Also, Italians in America developed a “fondness for beer” (Diner 600) and would commonly consume it with their meals. On the other hand, the Italians had a large impact on the food culture of America. The American food culture began to replicate Italian food by using “Italian” herbs and labeling things “Italian style.” For example, Americans would eat “Italian sausage,” but sausage was a rare dish that was specific to certain towns in Italy (Diner 61). They would also incorporate “Italian” seasonings into dishes like meatloaf. In addition, pizza was replicated and transformed into the pizza we know now. The pizza that was a result of it

A local business that I am quite familiar with is Barro's Pizzeria. While they do have three locations in California, there are 38 locations in the East Valley in Arizona. This is a restaurant my family and I frequent on at least a monthly basis. This company has the most authentic Italian pizza our family as had, other than homemade (however, it does depend on the cook and their love of their job). As the second generation of Italian Immigrants, my grandparents were both born in Italy and immigrated to the United States in the 1900's, so we are quite biased when it comes to authentic Italian pizza.

The exchanges of cultural ideas have been critical to human development. This relates to how humans have formed and used networks of trade and exchange through art and food. This exchange is evident during the Roman Empire that grew to dominate Southwestern Europe, Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean area. As Roman civilization grew to dominate these areas, it captured and assimilated the culture, enhancing its delicate dishes. Roman food is an expression of the cultural diffusion of the people they interacted with and those they conquered. To analyze such cultural diffusion, the recipe for Fried Veal Escalope with Raisins will help explain how cultural diffusion, through the rise of the Roman Empire, inspired such delicate culinary delicacies

Understanding different cultures: talk about how cuisines related to culture. What’s the most popular dessert in Europe, and particularly in Italy? Which countries are affected by Europe?

The Italian and Northern Europe Renaissances were both an important mark in history by changing the ideals of life, thought, culture, and art of the people’s of this time. In this paper I will explain the motive for change in these cultures, including the similarities and differences of the two cultures.

The 1990's rise of the family style Italian restaurant, which served portions by the bucketful, called for huge groups, replicating a nostalgic image of big, boisterous Italian families. With one wave of a garlic-bread wand, these restaurants offered a vision of the past through a red-and white-checked lens. Now I enjoy garlic-drenched linguine with clam sauce and platters of sausages and peppers as much as the next person, but I find it hard to eat surrounded by portraits of imaginary ancestors with the theme from “The Godfather” playing again and