The statement which is a logical inference based on details in the above passage is:
During the Elizabethan period, food was often scarce.
Ian Mortimer takes a tour to his readers to the customs, beliefs, and practices of the Elizabethan people in her book “The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England”. He uses conversational style to narrate the instances which can be said to be a work of social History. The food they eat, the places they visited the most, the dresses they wore, the cultural fests they celebrated, the detail about their social and economic transactions and the landscape were among the major things which Mortimer highlights in his book.