... it would appear that northern Europe was characterized by a larger consumption of meat, and southern Europe by a larger share of carbohydrates, except obviously in the case of military convoys when meals were improved by barrels of salted meat and tunny fish. Not surprisingly the tables of the rich were ... can vouch for the figure of 180 kilograms per person, which seems (though the calculation is doubtful) to have been the annual consumption in Venice at the beginning of the seven- teenth century.116 However, other indications suggest that the Venetian working class was both well paid...

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