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You wake up, stretch your arms and legs, and wipe the sleep out of your eyes. Then as you step onto the bare cold floor in the early hours of the morning you smell breakfast cooking and your mouth begins to water. You wander out into the kitchen and look around, only to realize you are still dreaming. You are a commoner, and besides that it is the Elizabethan age so you don’t even eat breakfast yet, not for another hundred years or so. So you grab a stale piece of black bread and crunch into it trying to wash its flavor and stiff crumbs down your throat with a goblet of wine before you are sent out to do your work for the upper classes of London. This is just one possibility of a morning scenario during the Elizabethan age. If you were a cook you were already working hard at making the food for people at court. If you were prosperous you were still asleep, not waking until 9 or 10 in the morning at which time you would be dressed and fed by people of lesser society. Since breakfast was not considered a meal, lunch and dinner were the only meals officially taken part in. But these meals were called something different from what we call them. Our dinner was called supper by the Elizabethan people and our lunch was called dinn