What is "Peasant Food?"

     Peasants are known as a class of people who toil on the land. They are usually made up of small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture. Peasants had to learn to utilize what they could grow or gather from the land or the sea, and then use inventive methods to cook it. Peasants didn't have the luxury to import or to buy fancy ingredients. Often, peasant fare would be considered extremely healthy by today's standards. Animal products were scarcely used and in most cases and beans and grains were used as protein sources.