What did people in France eat in the 1700s?

Answer 1

Food had to be prepared from scratch. That means, for instance, that you had to grow the wheat and grind it into flour (or buy it ground from the miller). Only then could you even mix it into a batter, knead dough, and bake bread in a fire-fueled oven. No food came in frozen packages or from fast-food restaurants A laboring family of four ate 1.2 tons of grain a year - 80% of that came from the Paris basin. In the 1780s a series of poor harvests in the area led to soaring bread prices, provoking food riots. Coastal cities could import supplies, but in Paris, a worker's daily bread took 97% of his income. The worst time was July, just before the next harvest