Close up of @atticamelbourne's Smashed Avo on Toast. Photo by the incredible @colinpagephoto A photo posted by Ben Shewry (@benshewry) on Oct 18, 2016 at 5:23pm PDT There’s something in this article about how “dirty” food is for the rich and stupid that needs expanding on: how it builds cultural capital to eat trashy food… Continue reading Five Links on Friday – 21 October 2016
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Street food isn’t a cuisine: it’s food that happens to be outside
Just because you barbecued that tongue next to a road doesn’t make it a cuisine I didn’t attend the World Street Food Congress a fortnight ago in Singapore but the outcomes from it seem to have devolved into the basest discussion of street food: name-calling, jingoism and fear of foreigners at once romanticising and ruining… Continue reading Street food isn’t a cuisine: it’s food that happens to be outside
Two links on the cult of authenticity
The quest for authenticity is an ugly thing. Will there never be an end to the spectacle of (usually white, middle-class) people draping themselves in exotic tribal fabrics, bribing sherpas to haul them up mountains, spending $15 for turkey-burgers in urban hunting lodges, throwing out perfectly good kitchen tables for expensive new tables made out… Continue reading Two links on the cult of authenticity
Is authenticity xenophobic?
My favourite Mexican cookbook is Marilyn Tausend’s Cocina De La Familia because it is not devoutly Mexican. Tausend isn’t Mexican and collated her recipes from interviews with home cooks across America rather than in Mexico. Recipes come with the location that they were collected and the Mexican state where the recipe or cook originated. It… Continue reading Is authenticity xenophobic?
Sausage sizzle or popup charcuterie?
Photo Credit: Wooster Collective I worked in a food truck for a few months in 1996. The truck parked at automotive parts swap meets and out the front of the cow pavilion at the Royal Easter Show. I cooked hundreds of frozen hamburgers, industrial soy-beef patties defrosting on the grill for families with matching mullets… Continue reading Sausage sizzle or popup charcuterie?