1.In the 1500s Europeans began to work longer days making them hungry earlier so they started to eat barley bread and barley porridge before working. Before this breakfast was just a meal for young and the elderly.
2.When wealth began to flow to Europe from America many people could afford more lavish breakfasts. Lords made it a festive occasion with three meat courses and three fish courses and a drink, this was the beginning of the continental breakfast.
3.During the Renaissance and onward breakfasts became a simple pastry and tea, and there was not much change to breakfast for many years
4. The next big breakfast revolution was cereal which slotted itself in as an average breakfast food in the 1900s
2.When wealth began to flow to Europe from America many people could afford more lavish breakfasts. Lords made it a festive occasion with three meat courses and three fish courses and a drink, this was the beginning of the continental breakfast.
3.During the Renaissance and onward breakfasts became a simple pastry and tea, and there was not much change to breakfast for many years
4. The next big breakfast revolution was cereal which slotted itself in as an average breakfast food in the 1900s