What Did Those Eggs Really Cost?

Is our food too cheap?

Photo by Morgane Perraud on Unsplash

If you have been dismayed by the increases in the cost of food in the last year — I certainly am — be grateful that you don’t live in eighteenth-century France.

France, in the 1780s, was one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the history of the world up to that point. Its rulers enjoyed the comforts of a ridiculously over-the-top…