[Sca-cooks] Food, the rich and the poor in Tour at the end of the XVth century
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Mon Nov 18 22:24:14 PST 2013
"The great drama of our epoch is the growing gulf which divides well fed
people, weighed down by their excess, from those for whom daily food is an
obsessive preoccupation, sometimes even a true cause for anguish. Two thirds
of men suffer from hunger or, at least, gravely bear the ill-effects of an
unbalanced diet."
Bernard Chevalier, "Alimentation et Niveau de Vie a Tour a la fin du XVe
Siecle", 1968
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This is in fact the introduction to an article on how different people ate
in late Medieval Tours. The same publication includes several other
articles on Medieval food, for those who read French and care to prowl.
Jim Chevallier
(http://www.chezjim.com/) www.chezjim.com
Les Leftovers: sort of a food history blog
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