Food is the most common thing you can find in the world today. Yet they are the most loved things in the world. If we looked at our foods nowadays people would just be busy devouring their foods. They would never expect the history of food that has been developing for many centuries. Compared to modern times and the Middle Ages, you may find a lot of differences. The Middle Ages influenced many of our food cultures, such as table manners and food hygiene. The medieval period also had different cooking methods than our cooking style today. The methods were baking, spitting, boiling, smoking, salting and frying. The cooking method actually depended on where you lived. Myriads of lower classes lived in villages in poor huts. Rich upper class nobles lived in a castle or large house. The house of the nobles had excellent kitchens served by many servants. The kitchen was located on the ground floor. They were equipped with a water supply with sink and drain, ovens for cooking and a huge fireplace for smoking and roasting food. The kitchens were built against the curtain wall of the castle, to which the so-called burrosa rooms were connected. The buttery was used to store and distribute drinks, especially beer. The person who took care of the butter shop was called a butler. Next to the butter room was another room called the bottling room, it was a place where wines and other expensive supplies were stored. It was usually located between the great room and the kitchen. Obviously the cooking method was limited for the lower classes because they had no materials to provide it unlike the wealthy nobles. Food in the Middle Ages changed considerably from... middle of paper... and nowadays it seems they have a huge gap. However ; if we look at its history, there are some of the most interesting and unique facts we can learn from. Middle-aged people had limited classes, and food was one of the limited things. Nowadays money is the only thing that holds us back whenever we feel like eating something expensive or not. Considering the conditions of middle-aged people, they did a wonderful job developing the foods we eat today. It has definitely had an impact on our diet and the foods that end up on our table. Many hygiene issues during the Middle Ages were a problem, but compared to modern times there is nothing they could have done better. Works Cited "Food of the Middle Ages". Blog post. The food of the Middle Ages. Np, nd Web. January 20. 2013. .