Like so many peasant foods, the essence of pasta is its simplicity.
"I know what Julia Child likes: peasant food that is simple and natural."
The well-established restaurants, too, are offering their version of sophisticated peasant food.
How did this Italian peasant food become a diet staple?
Traditional food plants, which the indigenous people continued to eat, were regarded as "peasant food" to be avoided.
Its menu offers heart-healthy European peasant food at downscale prices.
But the food here is powerful and bold, traditional peasant food with no holds barred.
In those days, rabbit stew was considered peasant food, but apparently one of her chefs had made it into a delicacy.
"More important, I got to know peasant food: how they use everything down to the duck skins."
Ful is by definition a peasant food, though most everyone in Egypt eats it.