Brief overview of the development of food crafts in Hradec Králové

The surviving written sources, especially a fragment of the tax register from the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, indicate 80 production specializations and trades. This also testifies to the size and importance of the city and its high economic level. Food crafts were among the most important. In Hradec Králové, it is possible to document millers, bakers, pastry chefs, butchers, sausage makers, cheese makers and other specialists. Meat for sale…