Peasant food
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william_kent
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tiny, but loved
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sufi
lala
bourgeois foodyism
luka
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- Wheat 7.1%
- Black Soybean
- Black Glutinous Rice 6.9%
- Oat 5%
- Mung Bean
- White Sesame 4.5%
- Yam 4.5%
- Black Sesame 3.1%
- Green Tea
- Rye 2%
- Brown Rice 1.5%
- Black Rice 1.5%
- Buckwheat 1.2%
- Adlay 1%
- Wheat Germ 0.5%
- Chrysanthemum
- Lotus Seed
- Black Jujube
- Ginseng
- Sugar
- Glucose
- Oat Fibre
- Vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C, E
- Colouring: E170
- Ferric Pyrophosphate
- Stabiliser: E412
- Oligofructose
luka
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Oligofructose is a subgroup of the fiber known as Inulin. It is also known as fructooligosaccharide. Oligofructose is an insoluble fiber that is not digested in the upper gastrointestinal tract so we do not get any calories from it. Because it is still intact when it reaches the last region of your digestive tract, it is able to feed the host of microbes that live in your colon and large intestines.
sufi
lala
excellent piece exposing bourgeois foodyism as a fascist scam
FT Magazine. Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong
From panettone to tiramisu, many ‘classics’ are in fact recent inventions, as Alberto Grandi has shown
FT Magazine. Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong
From panettone to tiramisu, many ‘classics’ are in fact recent inventions, as Alberto Grandi has shown
Benny Bunter
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Can you cut n paste it? Doubt anyone here has a FT subscription.
Haven't read it obviously, but I've realised that unless you actually live in a country and are more or less integrated you'll never know what normal people in any given place actually eat day to day, and it's usually very far from what people think it is.
Haven't read it obviously, but I've realised that unless you actually live in a country and are more or less integrated you'll never know what normal people in any given place actually eat day to day, and it's usually very far from what people think it is.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Benny Bunter
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Nice one, Look forward to reading that, especially about the carbonara issue (@Mr. Tea puts cream in it!)
Was reading the other day that apparently even something as basic as spag bol didn't have tomatoes in it until relatively recently.
All the Italians I've shared a house with (several over the years) lived exclusively off pasta/tomato sauce with a tin of tin of tuna chucked in, or alternatively pasta with garlic and chillies fried in loads of olive oil. They were students not foodies fair enough, but still quite finicky over how it should be prepared
Was reading the other day that apparently even something as basic as spag bol didn't have tomatoes in it until relatively recently.
All the Italians I've shared a house with (several over the years) lived exclusively off pasta/tomato sauce with a tin of tin of tuna chucked in, or alternatively pasta with garlic and chillies fried in loads of olive oil. They were students not foodies fair enough, but still quite finicky over how it should be prepared
luka
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Mr. Naga Pickle
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Mr. Naga Pickle
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I had high hopes for this establishment. I really enjoy egg rolls in particular corn beef egg rolls. My boss suggested this place after a long day at work. My boss ordered (4) hamburger egg rolls and I ordered chicken & Swiss egg roll and a corn beef & Swiss egg roll. Unfortunately I didn’t get my corn beef but instead two chicken. Granted I ate the eggrolls the next day they weren’t good. The meat was not flavorful at all. The establishment is pretty and very clean. Nice fish tank. Decent customer service beside the mix up. Ample parking. Took about 5 minutes. Total $18 I will try again and eat in the parking lot.
IdleRich
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I dunno if this is exactly the right place but maybe. House to myself for a couple of days, and somehow ended up forgetting to go to bed on Thursday night. Tonight I promise to go to bed early but somehow I lose track of time and it's six am again. It is time for bed but I figure I will get a couple of beers and some fags before I do it.
Unfortunately the cafe right under me opens later on a Sat so I travel a little further afield.
Oh fuck it, the photos won't upload for some reason, I'll figure it later. But i get a couple of beers from this tiny cafe not much bigger than a hole in the wall with maybe two tables. Noone in there but the proprietor is this super sweet little old lady, it's a really cute place all round really, seems to be from another era. No cigs though so I walk on to a much bigger one I've been visiting a few times recently, it's got loads of cakes and sangers etc and normally it's quite bustling but 6am on a Saturday I'm the only one. I get the fags and a slice of coffee cake with some sort of kinder chocolate bar on top. It's a little too sweet for me really but tasty.
Home and have a couple cigs on the balcony. Then to bed where I will drink one or both beers and hopefully drop off... night all.
Unfortunately the cafe right under me opens later on a Sat so I travel a little further afield.
Oh fuck it, the photos won't upload for some reason, I'll figure it later. But i get a couple of beers from this tiny cafe not much bigger than a hole in the wall with maybe two tables. Noone in there but the proprietor is this super sweet little old lady, it's a really cute place all round really, seems to be from another era. No cigs though so I walk on to a much bigger one I've been visiting a few times recently, it's got loads of cakes and sangers etc and normally it's quite bustling but 6am on a Saturday I'm the only one. I get the fags and a slice of coffee cake with some sort of kinder chocolate bar on top. It's a little too sweet for me really but tasty.
Home and have a couple cigs on the balcony. Then to bed where I will drink one or both beers and hopefully drop off... night all.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
I realized recently that there's a lot of structural similarity between the Italians who lose their shit because someone put garlic in a Bucatini all'Amatriciana and those godawful British people who bang on performatively about the acceptability of hash browns in a Full English and bean ramekins vs sausage breakwaters and all that stuff, and now I'm having to work hard not to just hate Italy.
Slothrop
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I saw a thing a couple of years ago, maybe from Tim Hayward or someone, to the effect that it's daft to rigidly police the ingredients of traditional peasant dishes because the almost definitive feature of peasant cooking is that you eat what you've got and try to make it as nice as possible, which generally translates into slow-cooking some cheap cuts of meat until they're tender and chucking in whatever vegetables you've currently got lots of.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
There's a bit in Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson where she talks about what she learns about food while at uni and living alone for the first time:
"A Neapolitan student along the corridor eats the same breakfast every day: a chocolate biscuit spread with Nutella, an espresso and a cigarette. He makes tomato sauce by frying a peeled garlic clove in olive oil and then removing the clove and then adding smooth passata, which I have not encountered before. He tells me that he does this so that the garlic flavours the oil. He also makes a dish of Heinz baked beans mixed with pasta and a beef burger on top. I introduce him to Krispy Kreme doughnuts, which he adores."
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Didn't the whole 'sausage breakwater' meme originate as a joke on Alan Partridge, anyway?