I got shook by a tweet criticizing the cosmopolitan attitude toward food as flighty whims for disposable/interchangeable ethnic genres
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like the idea that the whole "oh I don't feel like mexican, indian maybe? what about chinese? italian?" process is a bizarre artifact of the world-city
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and that outside of particular time/place people have stronger rootedness with food like other aspects of life in that it was what they did rather than a debate of taste
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idk in a way civ yearning for culture feels just a step from civ yearning for noble savage but eating the same breakfast every day is probably spiritually healthy
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I'm suspicious of this argument. I don't want rootedness in my food, I want to explore, discover, adapt, get bored, and go explore some more.
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