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Easy solution: go to Italy on holiday for a week or two, just to eat food. Now you know. Or even better, go fish, hunt and grow your own. I grew up on salmon m
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
Easy solution: go to Italy on holiday for a week or two, just to eat food. Now you know.
Or even better, go fish, hunt and grow your own. I grew up on salmon my maternal grandpa fished, cod etc. my paternal grandpa fished, smoked salmon my uncle made, moose shot by one of the neighbours, scallops my dad (and later myself) picked while scuba diving, potatoes and carrots either home grown or bought from the farmer down the road, berries picked in the fall by all the family and conserved...
The problem is 99% of people don't give a shit, convenience trumps taste and all else. Take something as simple as bread: anyone can make delicious bread with equipment they already own, at low cost, and it doesn't take a lot of time once you've done it a few times. Yet people buy effing atrocious bread from the supermarket every day. I refuse, I've baked all my own bread for the past 11 years.
It takes 2 minutes before dinner to mix predough, 3 minutes to mix full dough before putting the kids to bed, then 2 minutes putting the breads in the oven and taking them out again after the kids are tucked in. Repeat every four days.
- greggman 10y agonot so easy. Went to Italy for 2 weeks, had some of the worst food of my life for the first 8 days. Finally asked for help on FB and got a few good suggestions from friends. > The problem is 99% of people don't give a shit This is especially true in the USA, at least according to "The Culture Code" https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Code-Ingenious-Understand-People/dp/0767920570 https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Code-Ingenious-Understand-Peo...