The New Route Opens: The New Chapter Of European Diet Culture

The opening of the New Sea Route was the product of the development of the european social productive forces and production relations . It satisfied the requirement of the rising of capitalism while the feudal society was declining gradually. Because of its natural demands for the production places of the raw materials,the market and the trade methods, it was necessary for the production and development of the European Capitalism .It not only made them realize their longing dream of getting the gold and perfume trade,but also greatly expanded the activity range of the European people. It started the history of their reunderstanding the world.There must be a period of unforgettable history behind each food cultural system. During the period from 11 to 19 century, European food culture experienced a process transforming from agricultural food system to industral food system. The opening of the New Sea Route played an important role in inspiring the process.This article begins with the development and use of the food materials, the introduction of the new food materials, the changement of the ingredient which composits the food materials, the disintegration of the old food system and the form of the new food system. By means of the deep inspection and comparing research, the readers can understand that the opening of the New Sea Route has broken through the regional limits of the development and use of the food materials and ironed out differences of the eating contents in various parts of the world. It has broken the situation of the shortage of food materials, changed the traditional food composition and eating habits, formed new ideas of nutritive food and scientific food, which made the diet more nutritious and science, standardized the eating manners and produced a kind of totally new food consuming culture. That has turned to a new page of the European food culture.