* The pilgrims didn’t use forks; they ate with spoons, knives,
and their fingers. * They wiped their hands on large cloth
napkins which they also used to pick up hot morsels of food. *
Salt would have been on the table at the harvest feast, and
people would have sprinkled it on their food. Pepper, however,
was something that they used for cooking but wasn’t available on
the table. * In the seventeenth century, a person’s social
standing determined what he or she ate. The best food was placed
next to the most important people. People didn’t tend to sample
everything that was on the table (as we do today), they just ate
what was closest to them. * People weren’t served their meals
individually. Foods were served onto the table and then people
took the food from the table and ate it. All the servers had to
do was move the food from the place where it was cooked onto the
table. * Pilgrims didn’t eat in courses as we do today. All of
the different types of foods were placed on the table at the
same time and people