This reminds of David Chang’s Ugly Delicious series (at least the first season, as I recall) and its exploration of “authenticity” in food across cultures. It’s a great watch if you’re interested in this topic and haven’t seen it/have time to spare (assuming it’s still on Netflix).
My best memories of food from my Filipino culture are linked to the love I felt for those who shared meals with me. The flavors are permanently linked to happy emotions.
I'm not on twitter much these days, so I missed this, but upon seeing this list of "basic food" as the kid of south asian immigrants....two of those are my favorite things to get.
Yes food culture by itself has tons of problems and all groups cuisines has changed as cultures and people do. It's fascinating and as much as I love making "white people can't deal with spicy food" jokes, I kinda love how many more options there are for us all if you live in an urban area.
Food is at once so personal and so impersonal. We've attached it to personality, to health, to community and history. It's everything and nothing. It's a lot.
No notes on the ode to mango lassi. Garlic naan is perfect too.
Yes, sharing food and sharing about food can be very satisfying. Fighting about the authenticity about food and who should or should not eat certain genres of food is a distraction from the real problems that separate us and keep us as a country and as people from moving forward toward peace and happiness and sound leaders, in my opinion.
This reminds of David Chang’s Ugly Delicious series (at least the first season, as I recall) and its exploration of “authenticity” in food across cultures. It’s a great watch if you’re interested in this topic and haven’t seen it/have time to spare (assuming it’s still on Netflix).
My best memories of food from my Filipino culture are linked to the love I felt for those who shared meals with me. The flavors are permanently linked to happy emotions.
I'm not on twitter much these days, so I missed this, but upon seeing this list of "basic food" as the kid of south asian immigrants....two of those are my favorite things to get.
Yes food culture by itself has tons of problems and all groups cuisines has changed as cultures and people do. It's fascinating and as much as I love making "white people can't deal with spicy food" jokes, I kinda love how many more options there are for us all if you live in an urban area.
Food is at once so personal and so impersonal. We've attached it to personality, to health, to community and history. It's everything and nothing. It's a lot.
No notes on the ode to mango lassi. Garlic naan is perfect too.
Yes, sharing food and sharing about food can be very satisfying. Fighting about the authenticity about food and who should or should not eat certain genres of food is a distraction from the real problems that separate us and keep us as a country and as people from moving forward toward peace and happiness and sound leaders, in my opinion.