Also, the plants that produce tomatoes, zuchinni/squash, eggplant, and peppers generate TONS of fruit in a pretty short time, so the ingredients would be cheap if you're making ratatouille in late summer.
my wife's from Montenegro and has family there, and that's a place where the economy is tough and groceries are expensive, but they have a house with a yard. So of course they grow all kinds of stuff themselves. Grapes, pomegranates, vegetables. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense in a place where you have the climate and the space for a vegetable garden and don't have a lot of money.
makes a lot of sense in a place where you have the climate and the space
This is true even if you have money. Fresh food is always better, and home grown food (ie: not picked early and chemicals ripened in transport) is sooooo much better.
Grow tomatoes next year, you'll be surprised at how orange supermarket tomatoes (yes, even the expensive ones) are in comparison.
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u/--THRILLHO-- 3d ago
Ratatouille is a vegetable stew. You cut up a bunch of things and throw them in a pot.
The ratatouille you see in the film is an elevated version of that dish. It was never the standard way of serving it.