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The diet of the rich in medieval times focused heavily on animal proteins. While common people ate cereal grains, legumes, and vegetables accompanied with small amounts of meat on occasion, the rich ate elaborate meals of multiple courses, and would eat meat or fish on a daily basis.

Medieval food in general tended to be cooked at a fire rather than on a stove or oven, so the cooking techniques favored stewing/boiling, and spit roasting. Many dishes were in the form of soups, stews, pottage, and porridge, and when not cooked in such a form meat was most often spit roast over a fire. Vegetable dishes and bread were also consumed by the upper classes, but they were generally supplemental to the diet, where in the case of common people they were the mainstay. All social classes consumed ale as a daily food, and the wealthy could afford wine as well.

At a formal meal among the upper classes a thick piece of bread (sometimes stale) would be cut by a servant and laid on the diner's plate. This bread, known as a trencher, served as a base on which other dishes were placed, and would absorb juices and sauces over the course of the meal. The trencher was sometimes eaten, but in other cases they were collected after a meal and given to the poor to eat.

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