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Closing, Not Fusing, The Gap
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Taste is about discovery, having interest in things, and making a lot of mistakes. It’s about trying to find the authentic set of choices that both reflect your own background, but also the choices and discoveries that you have made consciously and deliberately. It's always changing and it's also always in reflection of what everyone else is doing ... See more
Tahirah Hairston • RLT Interview #4: W. David Marx, Writer
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This is why we find our tastes turned to warm, familiar foods when we’re in need of solace. We want things that thread effortlessly through the fabric of our lives: flavours that remind us of another time or, if they are new, at the very least run with the grain of our established tastes and preferences.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
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 tra
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It seems like there’s a reclaiming of ancestral roots that is also part of this fervor in fermentation. But it also seems like those ancestral roots that they’re trying to reconnect to are not going to take shape in the same way. They’re not going to appear like they did for their grandparents or their great-grandparents or back in the old country ... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
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But what is it that glues us together, across time and space? Each generation grapples with a new set of circumstances, inheriting some traditions and discarding others. The choices of what to change and what to continue are made not once and for all, but daily, yearly, life by life. What, then, is the fabric of the shared identity that seems to pe
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