Clever recipes have been my recent go to a lot lately.
I am starting to think the concepts of Asia being some socialist utopia comes partially from them having more simple cheap and mass made food items designed to feed lots of people for less resources. Food came first, governing style after.
For tea, that is Genmaicha, which is a green tea with roasted rice added in as a filler. Tastes delicious and is pretty cheap!
Foods that are for poor people in their country of origin suddenly spike in price when served in richer countries. Banh mi is like a dollar in Saigon but almost 9 in the US.
does that has a name? or can we call it food gentrification?
Wait until you hear about Pinsa
All the poor people couldn’t afford cooks; the cooks were their neighbours too.
Lobster, caviar, mussels, oysters, sushi, ribs, fondue, raclette… They all started as poor people’s dishes
And only became associated with luxury due to the insane costs of producing and shipping them at scale. Well, for the seafood anyways.
Shipping used to be the hard part. Eating caviar in Russia in a place with sturgeons nearby was easy enough, serving it at a fancy diner in Berlin or Paris involved insane logistics for the time.
Don’t forget the scarcity through over extracting! Nothing says luxury like near extinction.
Pizza
Then the rich people appropriate the dishes of the workers and make them unaffordable. The wealthy produce very little of their own cuisine just as they produce very little of their own labor.
Oxtails have entered the chat.
Puttanesca was invented by prostitutes. It’s a sort of stew/ragout with seafood anchovies and olives, served on spaghetti
Checks out, “pasta alla puttanesca” literally translates to “whore-style pasta”
i learned this from a children’s book (series of unfortunate events)
Why not whore-ish
According to a websearch that’s an oft repeated but dubious origin story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca#Etymology
it happens the other way round.
Spices? meat?
Poor people get to eat diluted wheat porridge and be happy about it.
culture is born out of shared struggles
History of bread
Every DDR dish is superior
Half of mine predate the DDR
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