peasant

"I just don't like anything which creates a kind of lords and peasants sort of thing," he told an audience in New York in 2023.

“Chefs have purposefully made it feel unachievable. When you strip it back, it’s all from peasant cookery — people were cooking it on farms, around fires.”

When the Song dynasty took over China in the late 10th century, the feudal system that gave aristocrats control of land and peasants in return for military service was breaking down.

He is, however, at least slightly better dressed than a peasant screaming invectives in a whiny British accent.

Once the Communists took over Russia, they vastly increased the literacy of the largely peasant population, industrialized the country, poured money into scientific research and fostered a respectable number of Nobel Prize winners.