It rocks my world that white flour (“flower of wheat”) and sugar used to be luxuries of the rich, and now eating whole grains and avoiding sugar is seen as a privilege of the wealthy.
We get great pineapples here in Australia, and Golden Circle tinned pineapple slices are a cultural icon. I think my luxury food of choice would be truffles, especially fresh. Glorious!
Pineapples carved in stone crowning your magnificent gate posts showed the world passing your gates that one's home at the end of your long drive through one's estates was a place of very fine dining indeed.
IIRC, lobster used to be prison food, used as fertiliser in Atlantic Canada, and English domestic workers would have a clause for the maximum number of times they were fed lobster per week.
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Little side note: a stylised pineapple was a common carved design element in furniture in the 1800s.
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Great video, Kae Lani! I will now feel fabulous when eating my pineapple slices!
I would love more videos on this subject. There were/are so many more foods that were used in this way over the centuries and still are.
Wow great video about food history. Hope PBS Food Channel has more food history videos plained
It rocks my world that white flour (“flower of wheat”) and sugar used to be luxuries of the rich, and now eating whole grains and avoiding sugar is seen as a privilege of the wealthy.
We get great pineapples here in Australia, and Golden Circle tinned pineapple slices are a cultural icon. I think my luxury food of choice would be truffles, especially fresh. Glorious!
Pineapples carved in stone crowning your magnificent gate posts showed the world passing your gates that one's home at the end of your long drive through one's estates was a place of very fine dining indeed.
on the flip side, lobsters are fancy now but didn't used to be. so funny how these things change
IIRC, lobster used to be prison food, used as fertiliser in Atlantic Canada, and English domestic workers would have a clause for the maximum number of times they were fed lobster per week.
In the US, celery was grow in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was a cash crop for Dutch farmers
Pineapples were considered a symbol of hospitality
Crab boils
forget turkey. i serve oven roasted bald eagle for thanksgiving.
That’s why I have plastic fruit
Oysters were poverty food.