I dont care that your not even 100 year old recipes of wheat cheese and tomato are being ruined your food is the basis for microwave meals and uni student food gtfo your high horse. Oh and italian cars are a joke
I dont care that your not even 100 year old recipes of wheat cheese and tomato are being ruined your food is the basis for microwave meals and uni student food gtfo your high horse. Oh and italian cars are a joke
culinary nationalism is a drug. its also nonsense too. most of these were poor people’s food. they had variants - not only regionally, the way the culinary nationalism approves of - but also from household to household. a living culture tends to be proud of the idea that every grandma has their own way of making dumplings, the whole ‘you’re doing it wrong’ being more of a regional ribbing than an accusation of sacrilege.
My grandma being from india and her curry
except its entirely her own inventions including her chapatis which are the best ive ever had and nothing comes close.
my grandma would routinely take her own cooking book, open it, read the recipe carefully and then do something entirely fucking random and say ‘if this works i hope i remember to write it down’.
and yet at the same time she was also intransigent with some things. ‘this is the best method to peel eggs wow you didn’t listen to me time to kill myself’, for an example. i think culinary nationalism takes that sort of affectation, which on some level is communicated on a personal level, and tries to make a dogma out of it. it is like taking folk religion and turning it into a scriptural dogma.
This is how I cook lmao. Just look at some recipes for the general idea then do whatever I feel like instead. It generally works: cooking is easy as long as you know your ingredients and balance the flavors.
Lmao I’m also absolutely stuck on certain methodologies that I’ve found to work better than anything else, although most of those are knife safety things where if someone does it wrong I get anxious because it’s dangerous, to the point that I’ll insist on taking the knife away from them and chopping or peeling something myself if they won’t hold it right.
This right here. This is 90% of what matters.
I know you hate to see me coming with my reasonably fast incredibly unorthodox knife cutting skills. You also can’t touch me lest I will pretty sure stab myself
dang this is too accurate
ESPECIALLY for Italy, a country that’s younger than the United States, and who’s language is actually 20 languages in a trench coat.
For most of post-Roman history a Venician and a Scicilian would have had absolutely no reason to associate with one another, culturally.
I’d blame Giuseppe Garibaldi, but he was actually kinda based
If Italy hadn’t been blown up a bunch and its government totally reformed by the events of the world wars it would be even more of a collection of city states in a trench coat.