Interior of a House at Fondi'. Fondi is town halfway

Interior of a House at Fondi'. Fondi is town halfway between Rome and Naples, Italy. A poor family sitting down to a meal of polenta which has been cooked in a saucepan of water suspended on a hook over the fire. Polenta flour can be made from wheat, chestnuts or maize, and the poorest people would eat it with nothing but a little salt. Hand coloured lithograph from Italian Scenery, Manners and Customs by Buon Airetti (London, 1806)

1806 Buon Chestnuts Cooked Flour Fondi Halfway Hook Maize Manners Nothing Polenta Poorest Saucepan Suspended Wheat

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