738: Legendary Food Writer Claudia Roden
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
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The History of Food in Italy
i was looking for how the food works, or places in the story. And actually was like doing a puzzle. Every dish fitted in the puzzlecause why is this dish here? Who was here before? What happened here before? Peasants were not feudal. There is an english name by which whole big families of peasants would rente,. They would work the land and give him half their produce to be able to be where they were e sharecropae. So it was those lives that to be er i was trying to find out. That explains how the e, where they came from, the big migrations. But also, what kind of peasantry was it in italy?
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