From Poor Man’s Pot to Posh People’s Prized Possession: A Story about Food over the past 5,000 years   Most of us do not realise that much of what we consider to be luxury food items today used to be poor man’s food. It was frowned upon by the rest of society. As food blogger I find this topic hugely fascinating. Food rising the ranks only to drop back into the gutter when the next big trend comes. This shows how subjective food is. It illustrates how much of its appreciation depends on convention and society’s dictates rather than pure and simple deliciousness as it should. In some cases it also shows how cooking techniques have improved over time. Nowadays, not so much in countries like France or Italy with their ancient, deeply ingrained appreciation of food and good produce, but certainly in Anglo-Saxon cultures with their wide-spread use […]