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What Sentence might provide the BEST EVIDENCE for the following controlling idea.
"Before the crusades brought in new food and new flavors from outside, food in the Middle Ages was more varied for the richer population than that of the poor"
"Before the crusades brought in new food and new flavors from outside, food in the Middle Ages was more varied for the richer population than that of the poor"
- "In fact, when you were eating in a medieval castle, the salt would be on the table in a huge fancy salt cellar, and the rich people would sit near the salt so they could use it, while the poor people sat further down the long table and couldn't use the salt." (Paragraph 3)
- "In the Middle Ages in Europe, what people ate depended a lot on how rich they were." (Paragraph 1)
- "They grew herbs like parsley, chives, basil and rosemary to flavor their food." (Paragraph 2)
- "...they had spices to put on their food, expensive spices that had to come all the way from India like pepper and cinnamon." (Paragraph 3)