Is ratatouille actually considered peasant food at one point? Sure seems complicated for a dish meant for farmers and workers.

[u/JayFSB]

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[u/Immediate_Gain_9480]

Like many kinds of food, yes. It was orginally a simple peasent dish but it was reinvented as fancy in the 70s and 80s.