Food+and+Gender

Elizabethan Food During Elizabethan times, food was separated by the lower and upper classes, nobles enjoyed the rich food, and low classes had lower class food. While high and low status mattered for the categories of food, gender did not make major differences on food. However, there were some minor differences between genders, such as the preparation of food, differences in drinks, and food styles. Women were not in high positions, so they spent most of their education learning domestic skills such as cleaning and cooking. However, high class women did not learn domestic skill because high classes did not have to serve food, but had servants to prepare and serve food to them. Therefore, lower class women not upper class women were the ones who cooked meals for the men ( [|source2] ). Both women and men consumed alot of alcohol back in Elizabethan times because the degree of alcohol was very low and the water was not clean back then. Back in Elizabethan times, people drank alcohol like water or tea, which we drink today. For them, alcohol was their main drink, however, the degree of the alcohol was very low so there weren't big affects on them. The amount of alchohol women drank broke the stereotypes that we have today, which is that men consume more amount of alcohol than woman. However, there has been a research that showed in some places they prepared 1.25 liters of wine for the female workers to drink. Amazingly, most women consumed as much alcohol as men did back in Elizabethan times. ( [|source1] ). Finally, the food was not affected by gender in the same way classes affected food. Therefore, gender only made some minor differences on food.