It’s not like I haven’t cooked before the quarantine, but now, it seems like all I do is cook and eat. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a few snacks in between. Luckily, I am still allowed to go outside and burn some calories. Otherwise, I’d be more afraid of dying of obesity than catching that damn corona virus.
So, with my new love for cooking, I decided to check
Mr. Skin for any scenes related to food. “Cooking”, ok a couple of pages, “kitchen“ damn, thirty something pages, I have to be more specific. What was the title of that
Cortney Palm movie? Sushi Girl. Ah, “sushi” then. Mary mother of God! Women covered in food is a thing?
Got me thinking, what was on the menu during those two weeks of Decameron’s seclusion. What did they stock up on in medieval times? Sadly, not much info about the food and supplies they packed to weather through the fourteen days of self-quarantine.
They, definitely didn’t pack any toilet paper. Wikipedia says Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty's paper, first introduced in 1857.
They also couldn’t pack corn, potatoes, tomatoes, coffee, tobacco, peanuts, no sunflower oil… as those were imported from America after 1492.
I checked some still paintings at
Rijksmuseum and
Prado from 14th-17th century to see what kind of foods were available:
Bread:- Wheat… white flower for rich, whole grain for peasants.
Drinking:Fish:- salmon, lobster, crabs, mussels, oysters
Meat:- Pig, wild boar, deer, hare, all kinds of birds, poultry, turkey, goose, ducks, pheasants, lamb
Fruits: - raspberries grapes, cherries, pomegranate, currant, strawberries, mulberries, blackberries, plums, apples, pears, oranges, peach, figs
Veggies: - Artichoke, asparagus, turnip, cabbage, carrots
Also spotted among the painted objects were cheese, olives, nuts, porridge, prosciutto, various candies, cakes, pies...
Not bad, lots of foods to pick from. Here are some things that landed in my cart during my end of days buying spree:
tuna, pasta, canned beans, corn, peas, soup, bouillon cube, rice, corn flakes, oats, raisins, cheese, prosciutto, canned fruit, chestnuts, some poultry, liver, multi vitamin tablets, sugar, milk flour, oil, eggs, ginger, vinegar, dried yeast, baking powder, salt, pepper, cabbage, apples, dried plums, potatoes, garlic, onions, dried milk, kids' porridge, mint tea, black tea and of course, roll of toilet paper...
