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 One of my favorite things to do is read culinary and food history. You read enough of this you start to notice that "traditional" foods, even the ones that people swear up and down have Always Been The Food of Our People, are almost universally not much older than the grandparents of the oldest people currently alive. I grew up on "traditional" Iranian food. I read primary historic sources on this stuff & most of what is claimed to be long-standing tradition was invented after 1900 10 comments | Expand all CWs
@dequbed I encourage you to look into the actual history (I haven't even looked at your bio to see what those cultures might be, this is just a recommendation I make to everyone who thinks their food lineage is ancient. Even religious stuff, there's like, major translation and meaning changes over time, it's all interpretation that shifts) @darius Venezuelan food (specifically Arepas) are considered to be the oldest recipe still cooked in more or less unchanged form last I checked, so I'm pretty good on that front. ;)  Here sometimes there are "medieval reenactments" where they prepare potatoes and tomatoes 🤣  @darius Ooh, my sister wrote a book all about this as it pertains to New England: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-about-Baked-Beans-Washington/dp/1479882763  @darius huh. growing up in the US midwest in the 80s/90s so completely inside the blast radius of post-war food science and the ongoing depopulation of rural ag areas conditioned me to think of my people as uniquely cut off from legacy food culture, but maybe this is a way more global thing than i think.  |
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@darius in much the same way that some people believe the vikings made it to atlantic canada, i believe italy made it to the americas thousands of years ago and have been eating tomatoes ever since