A feast in the Middle Ages was a very important occasion. Feasts were important to peasants and nobles because they represented important events such as holiday and harvest times. Feast days included Christmas and Easter. If you were a peasant you grew your own food; if you were a king you'd have workers that hunt food for you. The rich and poor had vastly different ways of getting their food and producing it. The feast was very important to nobles and peasants because it was usually the most important meal of the year. They had these meals on special occasions. Town-dwellers and peasants usually went to town for feasts and fairs, or only have a feast at home. For a nobleman or noblewoman, they had dinners in a private room or the main room in castles. Sometimes on Christmas, the Nobles were generous and let peasants eat dinner with them. Guests were separated by importance. Guest who ate with the nobleman, were either family members, guest or knights. They ate on the higher table, and the other guests sat on the low table. At the table the king or lord were served first. Foods like soup, stew, pork, fish, and other foods, were served. The wealthy had great meals but they took small portions, and they barely ate vegetables. They ate more fruit. Nobles were taught elegant manners at the dinner table. Knives and spoons only existed, forks did not exist in The Middle Ages. The food was expensive because of the spices, but they had a variety of foods. Food production in the Middle Ages was not very complicated. All year peasants grew food for themselves to last the whole year, but some grew more. In the spring peasants grew things like oat, barley, and peas. They made sure that animals were bred so they could have meats in the winter, others produced things for them. Animals were important for breeding, but in the winter some animals were killed. They couldn't feed them in the winter due to low food supply. The peasants killed pigs first