"High Peasant" referred originally to "simple food prepared with the best possible ingredients." Think a puttanesca sauce made with late summer dry-farmed tomatoes, Spanish salt-packed anchovies, capers from Pantelleria, olives from Gaeta, etc.: a peasant dish, done to the nines.
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High-peasant: category suggested by @nils_gilman that led us to this 2x2 which uncovers a natural 4th ethos: Thrift store (roughly equivalent to @bruces favela chic idea and the Macklemore song.
High peasant: think Alice Waters and Veblen leisure class.
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