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Mar 29, 2022 · The 12 Most Unforgettable Descriptions of Food in Literature. Haruki Murakami’s stir fry, Maurice Sendak’s chicken soup with rice—only the most gifted writers have made meals on the page ...
Jun 6, 2017 · It examines the long history of globalization of foods as well as the political, social, and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food, showing how hunger and taste have been driving forces in human history.
- Jeffrey M. Pilcher
- 2005
- Matthew Salesses
- Craft is a set of expectations.
- Expectations are not universal; they are standardized. It is like what we say about wine or espresso: we acquire “taste.” With each story we read, we draw on and contribute to our knowledge of what a story is or should be.
- But expectations are not a bad thing. In a viral craft talk on YouTube, author Kurt Vonnegut graphs several archetypal (Western) story structures, such as “Man in a Hole” (a protagonist gets in trouble and then gets out of it) and Cinderella (which Vonnegut jokes automatically earns an author a million dollars).
- In “A Journey Into Speech,” Michelle Cliff writes about how she had to break from accepted craft in order to tell her story. Cliff grew up under colonial rule in Jamaica and was taught the “King’s English” in school.
May 30, 2020 · The 1970s and early 1980s gave us plenty of foods we’ve all but forgotten—fondue, bread bowls, raspberry vinaigrette—and at first, comfort food followed the same trajectory: from popularity to commodification to backlash.
- Argentina: Asados. True to its international reputation for raising top-notch beef cattle, Argentina’s national dish is asados—an array of grilled meats sizzling over an open flame.
- Azerbaijan: Plov. Nestled between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian sea, Asia’s Azerbaijan specializes in plov, a rice-based pilaf in broth. Made in dozens of variations featuring lamb, saffron, fried apricots, and honey, plov is served at special occasions like weddings.
- Bahamas: Cracked conch. Conch is served any number of ways in the Bahamas, but the hallmark version is cracked conch, which is breaded and deep fried. The name comes from the method of tenderizing the chewy shellfish—cracking calls for pounding the meat with a mallet or even a frying pan.
- Bahrain: Machboos. The national dish of Bahrain, spicy chicken machboos, can be found across the Middle East, but it is particularly delicious in the Gulf island nation where it is a tradition at Friday family lunches.
Dec 31, 2019 · Famous cuisines in the world include French, Thai, Italian, Indian, and Chinese. In large cities, it is also not uncommon to find restaurants serving dishes from Moroccan, Lebanese, Vietnamese, and Hungarian cuisines. Even in countries that have their own particular kind of cuisine, it is not uncommon to have regional variations.
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Dec 9, 2020 · In 1959 the prime minister, Harold Macmillan, asserted that “the class war is obsolete”, and for a few decades the availability of cheap imported food suggested that might be true. But now British food banks are facing soaring demand, and even rickets has returned.
