Cuisine et alimentation populaire à Paris

Daniel Roche : The Parisian people's food. The food of the common Paris people is one of the indications of the majority's life-style, and specifically, an expression of a style of consuming. For those who lived in a single room (that is, three-quarters of the population), the space devoted to culinary activities combined utility and the expression of values. Its organisation, furniture, the evolution of utensils during the century, show various changes which indicate both an improvement in living conditions due to an imitation of the habits of their superiors and the pauperisation of a large number by the deterioration of their economic situation. The superfluous and the necessary coexist in the people's cuisine, as do the ordinary and the extraordinary, to be seen in consuming habits, whether at home or in taverns.Roche Daniel. Cuisine et alimentation populaire à Paris. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°15, 1983. Aliments et cuisine. pp. 7-18