[Sca-cooks] Food, the rich and the poor in Tour at the end of the XVth century

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

"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

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