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One of the things that I don’t like about Twitter is that sometimes, just as IRL, people start piling on to controversial or minority opinions to the point where it gets abusive and bullying.
Occasionally, though, some people really need to keep their controversial opinions to themselves. Case in point:
Did she really?
I mean, I’m still trying to figure out this “we” Ms. Richert speaks of.
Personally, I think that the “backstory” behind various dishes served up is the most interesting part of food narratives.
A couple of examples:
a) When I first moved to Chicago, I worked in a soul food restaurant. Every Friday, the place sold fried catfish and spaghetti as one of the Friday specials. I liked that combo well enough, but I’d never had that combo growing up in Detroit with some serious soul food cooks.
A few years later, I asked Mom about it and she said that neither my grandmother nor my great-grandmother never made that particular combination of dishes.
Most Black people in Chicago grew up eating catfish and spaghetti. Many Black people in Detroit did not.
Finally, I went to a map depicting the Black Migration and, roughly at least, found the answer to my question, at least.
Growing up in Detroit, most of the Black people that I knew were from families that migrated north the eastern parts of the South like Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida.
In Chicago, many of the Black people that I knew and know are from families that migrated from western parts of the South like Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
You can taste the difference in the food and how meals, side dishes, and whatnot are prepared.
One more brief example: I knew a chef that explained to me, once, that the “spiciness” of the foods usually depends on how close a given place is to the equator.
Prior to learning that, I don’t think that you would have found me eating all sorts of the various “fusion cuisines” that one sees in the restaurant scene nowadays and over the past 20 or so years.
But now realizing that, for example, New Orleans is about the same distance from the equator as New Delhi, I decided to try fusion Cajun/Indian dishes a couple of times and...yeah, it’s good.
I’ve never taken anything like an “anthropology of food” course but I do frequently find the “backstory” of a dish or a meal every bit as interesting as the recipe itself and, sometimes, I do enjoy the meal a little bit more knowing these details (OTOH, if someone doesn’t cook it right, then no amount of “backstory” is gonna save that!).
One more food question here; no need to “quote tweet,” you can write in the comment section, if you’d like.
Comments below the fold.
From gharlane:
In the diary by JoeCarl on the unwillingness of the NYT to accurately label false statements made by 45, I nominate this comment from anastasia p, detailing the horrific double standards the MSM has for Dems vs. GQP, and what we need to do about it. Essential.
Also from gharlane:
In the front-page story on the Oath Keepers-Roger Stone axis — a very underrated, hilarious comment from pigpaste. The comment above it (and the diary) provide context.
From highacidity:
In the front-page Ukraine update, with today’s version detailing the effectiveness that Russian media has had in presenting a counter-narrative to its citizens — for this comment made by Elwood Dowd…. If only.
From inkstainedwretch:
In the diary by News Corpse on Tucker Carlson attributing his being wrong on Putin to Democrats — I nominate this comment made by Near futurist, as GQP 'Common sense' is full of fourth grade logic and assumptions based on their fears and hatreds.
Next - enjoy jotter's wonderful (and now eternal) *PictureQuilt™* below. Just click on the picture and it will magically take you to the comment featuring that photo.
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