Everyday Meals: 2023

People’s diets in the 1800s varied depending on their location, season, and social class. Generally, people ate more fruits and vegetables in the spring and summer, and more meat and preserved foods in the fall and winter. They also cooked most of their food from scratch, using ingredients they grew, raised, or hunted themselves. Some common foods they ate were bread, porridge, soup, stew, cheese, eggs, bacon, fish, poultry, beef, pork, potatoes, rice, beans, peas, oats, wheat, corn, cabbage, onion, garlic, turnip, parsnip, pumpkin, squash, apple, pear, peach, grape, and berry. They drank water, milk, buttermilk, ale, wine, and tea. They used different methods of curing food, such as drying, smoking, and salting, to prevent spoilage. They also used various cooking techniques, such as baking, boiling, roasting, frying, and grilling, to prepare their meals.

Do you stay away from the pasty green material that gives sushi its flavor? According to a recent Japanese study, you can improve your memory by dabbing some wasabi on your raw fish and seaweed. Both short- and long-term memory are enhanced by the condiment, according to a Tohoku University study that was published in the journal Nutrients. Although the results were based on a limited number of healthy volunteers, lead researcher Rui Nouchi, an associate professor at the university's Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, claimed the results exceeded expectations.

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Nouchi told CBS News, "We knew that wasabi conferred health benefits from earlier animal studies." But the significant shift was what truly caught us off guard. The change was rather noticeable.