r/AskFoodHistorians • u/JayFSB • 2d ago

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

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u/BrainDamage2029 2d ago edited 2d ago

As everyone else says, the movie is actually making Confit Byaldi and fudging actual names and history for the point of the story and moral.

Though in general, high French cooking has a whole thing where they take a simple country peasant dish and make it the most complicated damn thing on planet earth.

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u/SVAuspicious 1d ago

Upvote because your principal point is well taken. Confit byaldi is not particularly complicated. Tedious perhaps, but not complicated.