2. • The victorian era is often charecterised as
a time when literature a social conduct
went through a major change. A aspect
people rarely look at though is the major
changes in cuisine and the basic
standards of food.
3. • At this time people standards of what was to
be eaten was revamped. Their expectations
of sanitation and freshness were changed
which helped the over all populations life
expectancy and prevented spread of disease
which had plauged the previous eras. Though
their standards were ok, they were still very
dirty compared to our standards today.
4. • The popularization of the “tea hour”
happened in this hour. This was because
the portion of breakfast was often not
enough to hold their hunger of until lunch
so they made a time to eat and drink. This
cause the rapid spread of tea houses.
5. • Towards the end of the era gas
stoves were being installed in richer
peoples houses. This allowed for
controlled temperatures and more
percise cooking for temperature
sensetive recipies.
6. • There was a vast differences between
what the rich and poor people ate.
The rich ate a large amount and threw
away even more. This was at a time when
a large proportion of the population were
living on dripping, rotten vegetables, tea,
and gruel (which is basicly oatmeal/grits
but mainly water. It was nasty).
7. • Contrary to common belife, flavors of food
actually simplified in comparison to it’s
previous era. Though the rich hired chefs
to make extremely flavorful food on
occasion, in general the cooks of this
times kept the flavors simple.
8. • In the Victorian Era the eating inland was
now actually possible. This was due to
railroads and the advances in
refridgeration which made it actually
possible for people to transport fish
without them rotting. This helped influence
the spread of one of Europe’s most
famous foods, fish and chips.
9. • The end Victorian era was the
beginning of the canned food. These
foods had very long shelf lives and
were often cheap which offered a
nice alternative to the poorer people
at that time.
10. • Despite the low quality ad amount of food
the poor had, the overall quality and
amount of food of the time had increased.
This was due to advances in agricultural
technology which allowed plants to be
planted faster and crops to be harvester
faster.
