Peasant foods

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Peasant foods are dishes made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients, as would have been eaten by peasants. Studies on historical rural diets in Sweden indicates that peasant foods were predominantly grain-based. Periodic shortages in domestic grain production led to Sweden's reliance on imported grains while the Swedish peasants relied on locally available resources to survive. In many historical periods, peasant foods have been stigmatized.

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