Attilio Pusterla after his debut in 1883 at the annual Braidense turns to social issues, with such a marked realism as to place him in fact in the context of the most up-to-date artists. Present at the First Brera Triennial in 1891, he took part in the most important Italian artistic events until 1897, to then emigrate two years later to America and deal mainly with decoration, perhaps discouraged by the scarce confirmations obtained from critics and the public. The Italian economic kitchens to which the date of creation in 1891 is attributed, is smaller than the previous one of the same subject (today at the GAM in Milan), it contrasts with a decidedly more intimate and sad atmosphere, giving up the frenetic gathering of people crammed into benches at lunchtime in favor of a limited number of people sitting down to eat breakfast in the morning. Even the women of the central group - an old woman who feeds a little girl and a young girl absorbed in a melancholic attitude - have no reciprocal relationship, each closed in a personal drama of resigned marginalization, alone like the rest of the scattered figures who animate the second floor richly woven of celestial and violet flashes.