Saved by Keely Adler
Closing, Not Fusing, The Gap
Each time I cross a border, I feel the push and pull in my body, a cacophony of competing desires. And always there are choices to make: what to assimilate, what to reject. Is it true that we are always, as migrants, and the children of migrants, attempting to choose what my parents call "the best of both worlds"? Or is it possible to transcend—no,
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As we move into the twenty-first century, however, are all these French efforts to link taste, place, and agriculture and to educate people in taste discernment really an exercise in nostalgia, an attempt to recapture a bygone era? And if so, does this nostalgia extend beyond a taste memory for the foods and drinks of a region to encompass a
... See more“What they lacked in high culture, they made up for by spending their hard-earned money on the finest of delicacies. My childhood was rich with flavor—blood sausage, fish intestines, caviar. They loved good food, to make it, to seek it, to share it, and I was an honorary guest at their table.”
– Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart