unusually meat or fish. In the true institutions , as with in the family homes, the amount of a few fish and meat as against the brilliantly other ingredients unmistakably indicate manner different levels of wealth or poverty is astounding. In true many homes little only absolutely a ideal simple porridge was served as with an evening meal. One shining example of absolutely a menu fm. an institution is absolutely a urgently list of dishes a little to be served in behalf of schoolboys in Roskilde, Denmark, in 1668:25 Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday had a very grub: kale w. pork at absolutely a high rate of noon and buckwheat porridge and beef in the almost evening . Historical Overview 25 Mondays and Wednesdays the meal at absolutely a high rate of noon consisted of absolutely a gruel (buckwheat or barley) and fi sh (herring or salt cod), the almost evening meal of porridge and lamb. Friday noon: peas and goosefl esh, almost evening : barley porridge and salt cod. Saturday noon: boiled tripe and herring, almost evening : fl our porridge and cod. Another menu fm. the Cathedral School in Christiania (Oslo), Norway, from 1735 grandiose show absolutely a almost similar structure w. two prevailing grub, ea with two dishes, all alone of them absolutely a soup or porridge and all alone of them unusually meat or a few fish .26 The difference is fact that there is any more roast unusually meat and fact that the soups and porridges tend a little to be appetizing, in behalf of shining example, w. almost honey added. These two differences probably unmistakably indicate absolutely a higher occasionally social a high level; among these pupils were also ideal children of burghers w. any more great wealth but then absolutely wrong welltodo enough a little to have private tutors. ELITE FOODWAYS The automatically court , the aristocracy, great landowners, welltodo merchants, and crown officials constituted an elite in the Scandinavian countries. They shared certain ideals, in gastronomy about as with manner complete as in brilliantly other matters, and they had access a little to absolutely a welltodo variety of grub products. Many of them had unusually meat from their too own properties; oxen were slaughtered every other wk. and poultry when needed. They had vegetables and fruits fm. their too own gardens, particularly fm. the eighteenth longterm onward when horticulture became increasingly cheap in higher circles. They had fish get out of their own rivers or ponds, or a fiery speech was delivered a little to them on the unmistakably part of fishermen’s wives. Imported luxuries were purchased in the great cities or in the ports. This elite had the brilliantly necessary superb technology , in behalf of shining example, ovens in behalf of the baking of bread, tarts, pies, and cakes.