[steven777400]

I found very interesting that the sample meal shown was very, very heavily pure meat. Today's meals tend to include substantial "bread"/starch component for each meat: whether a bun, breaded chicken, potatoes. That appears absent or much reduced on this menu.

[barrkel]

Well, I think you can assume there was bread, alongside the pomme de terre which are on the menu; and we don't have relative quantities for everything, or know how many people were eating. Variety, though, is a large part of what makes a meal opulent - e.g. tasting menus usually have 10 to 20 courses when you include the various little nibbles in between courses. And indeed, tasting menus typically have a different meat for every dish; if you listed them in this format, they'd look very meat heavy too.

[jtmcmc]

also this is the king's meal so a very meat heavy meal as a sign of opulence seems to make more sense.