Basic food scarcity makes refined gastronomic etiquette irrelevant to most people
Evidence
to a generation which had suffered from five years of wartime food and rationing and could barely remember what it had been like to have unlimited butter, cream, oranges, lemons, sugar, jam, meat, not to mention wine and olive oil, the cheese at the end of a meal was an irrelevance. The point was first to make sure you had the wherewithal to prepare a meal, then you could start worrying about whether or not it would be complete without three or four ounces of cheese. — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 50
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 50
- XREF: connects to: Food openly reveals character more than money or sex do — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 569; Green consumer choice is a class privilege unavailable in food deserts — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 717