#food culture

[hussyknee]

Whenever Brits are like "tea is our national drink, our culture, our personality, our mental health" I think of our hill country blanketed in a patchwork quilt of human suffering and ongoing violent colonialism and want to smash all their tea cups. Your genocidal leaf juice is nothing to be proud of. The present day tea pluckers are the descendants of the Indians you enslaved and they still live in unthinkable poverty in the line houses you built to house them like cattle. The families whose farmlands you robbed have been starving for generations. Every sip of your leaf juice is soaked in blood and you drink it like vampires.

Tea will never belong to you. It's our legacy of grief, and your shame.

Drink your tea and shut the fuck up.

[manessha545]

Food culture, Bogota, Colombia: Bogota’s food culture dates back to pre-Columbian times, when the region was inhabited by indigenous tribes such as the Muisca and the Chibcha. These tribes relied on farming and fishing for their sustenance and used locally available ingredients to create their meals. Corn, potatoes, quinoa, beans, and various types of meat, including guinea pig and llama, were staples in their diet. Many of these ingredients are still used today in traditional Colombian dishes, such as ajiaco soup and bandeja paisa

[victusinveritas]

“I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.”

—Werner Herzog

[sbrown82]

Might be controversial, but this why I don’t support transracial adoption, at least, when it comes to white adopting parents because many of them don’t seem to think. They just pick out a non-white kid and don’t do the work to make sure that child grows up supported racially and knowing their culture. Some do, but it seems like a lot don’t. Like why adopt a child you know nothing about or how to even do the basic things for? And when it comes to a little black girl and her hair, we had to have a whole crown act, don’t have that child going to school looking crazy and have her hating herself and being picked on because you didn’t think about her hair BEFORE adopting her. Makes me think what other things he failed to learn about regarding black culture and racism, which he will need to know when raising her to make sure she’s prepared. We all know we’ve had those “black talks” with our parents. She won’t get that. I hope he isn’t one of those “I see no race” people because little girl is going to be in for a very rude awakening at some point in her life when she realizes “I’m just me at home, but I’m black out in the world.” I think it’s absolutely neglectful for a white parent to not make an adopted child aware of what she will walk into concerning the world. Plus, every time I hear about these types of adoptions, I can’t help thinking about that lesbian couple who adopted all those black kids, took them around for photographs to absolve white guilt, then ended up killing them. The one child hasn’t been found to this day. Idk it always sus to me.

I don't disagree with transracial adoption at all, because first of all EVERY child deserves love and to be cared for. But it is true, if you adopt a child of another race, it's your responsibility to engage them in their culture so they can feel comfortable, appreciated and walk through life with a bit more ease. I think Angelina Jolie does a great job at that. She's always seemed very invested in her children's lives, their unique cultures, and respects their differences. She even takes lessons in their native languages and lets them visit each of their countries so they know and remember who they are and where they came from and I think that is beautiful.

Here's her in Cambodia (where her eldest son Maddox is originally from) teaching journalists about the local food culture and how the people there have survived off of the diet:

[tabney2023]

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[soilthesimpletruth]

This is not a hobby.

This is my life.

[msfbgraves]

There are whole treatises on immigrant cooking but it's so interesting to do it in real time.

I wanted some noodles with pickled eggs and immediately started the process.

They use a lot of unsweetened soy sauce. The thing is, sweetened soy sauce, as known in Indonesia, is so much cheaper here. And then there was the sesame oil. I have some sesame seeds, but they're hardly a staple, and my local supermarket did not stock sesame oil at all. And then there was the sesame paste, well, fuck it. I went with peanut butter for that. And no, they did not have white sesame seeds.

Unsweetened soy sauce, very expensive, immediately becomes a luxury, so we're doing this with sweetened soy sauce, omitting the sugar, and black sesame seeds. Also peanut butter and some Indonesian crushed pepper paste (sambal). Was it good? Yes! Did it, at this point, have anything to do with the Japanese version? I don't have money to be all authentic, crikey.

Also, Dutch national cuisine is extremely heavily influenced by not having:

Arable land

The climate to grow anything but cabbage, root vegetables or onions (few herbs). Spices are insanely expensive. We stil say that something is 'dear as pepper' (peperduur).

Do you know what we did have?

Livestock. And dairy. Plus beans and some fruits like apples, pears maybe some cherries and forest fruits.

So Dutch meals can only really be flavoured by meat! Fish is somehow a springtime and summer dish, because you need very soft baby carrots and very fresh vegetables to actually enjoy a meal of plain fish - again not even lemon - plus potatoes and some lettuce.

And oh, what if meat is unavailable?

(Not even bacon?)

There's only one thing for it, you smother it in cheese.

Now of course nowadays, you can buy herbs and spices. But still, our people are very bad at making vegetarian dishes, because if you can't flavour anything with meat or cheese what are you gonna do? Buy cumin?! Who has that kind of cash, traditionally?

So you see a lot of meats seasoned with fruits, or fruit served as a side dish. You see a lot of cabbage and kale mashed through potatoes. Why? It softens the taste; cabbage is quite harsh. You also see people basically give up on dinner, really, and inventing really tasty meat and cheesy bites. That does not a meal make, but they're really really good. It does also create a culture obsessed with desserts. If dinner is a bit of a bland affair, dessert can lift your spirits considerably.

A lot of this "White people can't season their food" comes from traditionally not having learnt non meat-based seasoning. We've tried to get by with fruits and the best cheese we could manage.

And sure. I am very eagerly brushing up on other kitchens, because now we absolutely can buy five spice and lentils and ginger. But I'm so much milder about "bad" cuisine or unauthentic foods. People are trying to do the best with what they have available and indeed what they know. Also, learning a foreign cuisine is hard and can be very expensive.

And I've decided that it's infintely easier to cook Surinamese in the Netherlands and Indian in the UK, so I'll cook Gordon Ramsay recipes when I'm there and sweet soy sauce chicken noodles when at home. Also try finding endive outside of Turkey and Holland. It's no use.

[shoesallinaline]

Does the Good Omens Prime account really know what it’s wading into by posting a deviled egg recipe? Because in the (American) South, there are entire families that have been ripped apart by the “correct” way to make deviled eggs.

[ssttrangr]

MJ 2# ☕️.

[hussyknee]

FYI if you're watching MasterChef Australia, the Sri Lankan Australian contestant Savi is a friend of mine and kind of a stealth idol because everything I seem to be online (a ball-busting, bombastic, proudly brown, unapologetically fat, sexy decolonizer lady) she actually is irl. It's funny because she was a few grades below me and found me intimidating when we were in school and now I'm the one perpetually in awe of her. Do watch if you can and root for her! She's a delight!

[fili-oeuvre]

The Kin of the Bear and the Kin of the Fox are omnivores like humans. Though, there is a subspecies/branch of the Kin of the Bear that lives in far off frozen areas that evolved to be obligate carnivores.

While, the Kin of the Wolf are the only ones who are true carnivores, being facultative carnivores.

Since joining in alliances, the groups have developed intercultural recipes and foods from sharing and combining each other's respective cultural recipes.

Communal meals are commonplace in the camps and are even encouraged to build kinship and camaraderie amongst themselves.

[fromthebunkers]

I'm looking for books and writings about Indonesian food culture, preferably written by Indonesians.

I'm taking a class on food and culture, we've got a semester-long assignment where we're assigned a country and need to write a report on their primary cultural dishes and the history, economics, cultural factors, etc. that have shaped their food culture.

I've been assigned Indonesia, and I'd like to find some more first hand sources because 1. Proximity to the culture having actually lived in it and 2. The databases my professor has given us as starting points have felt condescending in the ways they talk about aspects of Indonesian culture and history, especially in its relationship to Western institutions.

But yeah, if anyone sees this and knows of any resources you could point me to I would really appreciate it.

[victusinveritas]

[chrishangry]

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