ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the transformation of income into food. It presents a case study of the city of Barcelona and analyses the changes that occurred in the consumption of livestock food products between 1870 and 1935. Barcelona is of interest because in this period it was developing into a major economic centre in Mediterranean Europe. There are several reasons why Barcelona diets were lacking in animal protein before the early twentieth century. The consumption of animal protein was low at the end of the nineteenth century. Two important changes in the citys supply conditions are observable from the closing years of the nineteenth century. First, railway connections were made between Barcelona and the northern part of the peninsula and inland regions. Second, Spanish agriculture underwent an important restructuring after the sectoral crisis at the end of the century, and cattle and pig farming grew.
