around a proverb that needs to be disclosed if it were an enigma.
Careful research and historical traces the history of cheese with pears, food intended for pastors and vulgar that rehabilitates the medieval monasteries of making food and essential for fast days set by religion.
The cheese arrived in the tables of the rich and to be accepted to marry a delicate fruit, synonymous with elegance, the pear note, and this combination is unsettling because even the farmer like the food of the lord, and then you need to change the rules of game.
The rich do not provide that "good is what we like" but that "like what is good", then the food is judged that the circle of connoisseurs and taste in this way is like a "device of social differentiation, so you have to deny knowledge of the lower categories, with the ignorance in the countryside, landowners retain their power. Hence the saying "The farmer did not say / how good the cheese with pears"
The proverb expresses the culture of the ruling class that wants to deny education to the lower classes, but the backlash of the peasant revenge in the second half of the proverb is very common in Tuscany. ... / But the farmer, who was not jerk, / knew before the master. "
Massimo Montanari, cheese and pears. The story in a proverb, Editori Laterza, 2008, pp. 162, € 15
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