What's for Dinner?

This is Viking stew with four egg yolks in it.

These are the ingredients of the Vikings

VIKINGS

Vikings ate two meals a day, one was porridge, and the main meal was a big kettle of stew called skause. The ingredients were vegetables and meat, and at dinner they would talk, tell stories, play   games and music. They made lots of bread from oats, rye, barley, and wheat. The drank butter milk, and milk came from not only cows, but also sheep, goats, and horses. The eggs they ate were from chickens, geese, ducks, and gulls. The meat they enjoyed was pig, sheep, goat, cow, and horse. They hunted rabbit, boar, wild birds, squirrel, deer, and in the far North reindeer, seal, and polar bear.They loved fresh water fish, like salmon, trout, and eels. The favorite drink was weak ale, and even kids drank it.

These are the Cocoa beans. They make chocolate.

Here is a basket of corn. 

Here are three Aztecs making tortillas from corn plantations.

AZTECS

The most important food of the Aztecs was corn called maize. Corn was ground into flour to make tortillas, tamales, and even drinks. The also ate beans, squash, chiles, tomatoes, limes, cashews, and regular and sweet potatoes. They loved peanuts and chocolate. They had bees for honey, and turkeys for meat, and eggs, also dogs and ducks. The hunted and fished for deer, rabbits, iguana, fish, and shrimp. Can you believe they ate insects?!? It's true. They ate grasshoppers and worms. They collected algae from the lake Texcoco to make bread and cheese. Food was cooked inside Maguey cactus leaves. One of the best things that Mexico gave to the world was chocolate. The cocoa bean was even traded as money.

These are Mayan Tamales. The Mayans cooked them from maize.

Squash was an important ingredient. Here is a yellow and green one growing.

MAYANS

The main ingredients of Mayan food are like the Aztecs. Corn, beans, and squash. Corn was made into tortillas and filled with beans and squash like a burrito. They also ate chiles, avocados, papayas, and guavas. For meat they liked turkey, rabbit, armadillo, monkey, taper, and macaws.

If I had to pick my favorite foods from these cultures, it would be the Aztecs. They had more variety and delicious things like chocolate, tortillas, fish and shrimp, tamales, and I know these foods, 'cause I come to Mexico every year.

I am eating flor de calabaza [squash blossom] soup that is Pre-Hispanic

Here I am with fresh handmade tortillas. I squeeze lime on them and add salt. Delicious!