Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Primary Foods
This year's Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. is not going to focus on particular countries like it usually does, but rather on world foods.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/dining/22folk.html?hp
The author refers to 'comfort foods' to explain the importance of menu items touching our cultural or hometown roots, but I prefer to think of them as 'primary foods.' That term far better explains an uncontrollable craving for a cheeseburger when I sit down to table full of beautiful pho or spring rolls in a gently herb-scented restaurant here in Saigon. It is vey hard to defeat our programming and add to our menu of primary foods.
Food is the glue that is holding the U.S. together. While Samuel Huntington (http://hnn.us/articles/4987.html) and Mark Krikorian (www.cis.org) rail against the dangerous effects of the New Immigrants, few can dispute the positive influence of the wild new tastes they are bringing with them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/dining/22folk.html?hp
The author refers to 'comfort foods' to explain the importance of menu items touching our cultural or hometown roots, but I prefer to think of them as 'primary foods.' That term far better explains an uncontrollable craving for a cheeseburger when I sit down to table full of beautiful pho or spring rolls in a gently herb-scented restaurant here in Saigon. It is vey hard to defeat our programming and add to our menu of primary foods.
Food is the glue that is holding the U.S. together. While Samuel Huntington (http://hnn.us/articles/4987.html) and Mark Krikorian (www.cis.org) rail against the dangerous effects of the New Immigrants, few can dispute the positive influence of the wild new tastes they are bringing with them.
