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The CIA has a huge blind spot for non-European food. Check out the Chinese Cooking Demystified youtube channel. They did a video on the CIA's laughably bad ma
by inferiorhuman 3y ago
The CIA has a huge blind spot for non-European food. Check out the Chinese Cooking Demystified youtube channel. They did a video on the CIA's laughably bad mapo tofu recipe. It was bad enough that simply following the instructions got their neighbors up in arms.
- salawat 3y ago...The world, for just a moment, was a far more interesting place. Then the realization that no, the Central Intelligence Agency does not have a crack division of crypto-culinary experts in the midst of a cold war, attempting to thwart or coordinate psyops in which they sabotage other nations morale through spreading deliberate, yet subtly disasterous cooking advice.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoYeah, they use vacuum cleaner salesmen instead.
- ubercore 3y agoThailand's culinary diplomacy program isn't _too_ far off
- madcaptenor 3y agoMy kid goes to a camp that abbreviates its name as CIA (the C stands for Camp and the IA are the initials of some old rich guy) and it always throws me.
- jcranmer 3y agoI imagined it as them needing to have experienced chefs on hand to teach ethnic cuisine skills, so that deep-cover spies wouldn't be unmasked by their inability to make the local cuisine.
- ubercore 3y agoThat book is way more useful for techniques than the recipes in it. I wouldn't dream of trying their mapo tofu!
- inferiorhuman 3y agoPretty much everything from the technique to the details were pretty far off the mark. It was pretty cringeworthy to watch.
- ubercore 3y agoI meant the techniques portion of the book, not techniques for the Mapo Tofu.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoSure, but the non-European techniques are way off. Look at how they tell you to stir fry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AujuLHK3hvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AujuLHK3hvs