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The coolest low rider I ever saw was in Tokyo.
by RyJones 1y ago
The coolest low rider I ever saw was in Tokyo.
- duxup 1y agoIt happens to food too. The "traditional" foods are never from just one place and it's always evolving and somewhere along the way someone adds their local cultural twist to something from the outside and it's suddenly so much better. I cooked a recipe recently that was based on a dish that was made for American GI's in Japan after WWII ended. Okinawan Taco Rice Now that's the only way I want to eat taco meat ....
- harrall 1y agoA lot of food we like was invented fairly recently. Modern pizza was invented in Italy in 1889 for example.
- efavdb 1y agoHere is a 2000 year old fresco showing what looks like a pizza! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco...
- duxup 1y agoLosing Pizza surely was the start of the dark ages.
- dendrite9 1y agoOn the other hand I'd argue flatbread with something on it is one of the base foods. Whether it came before or after the dumpling/packet family is a fun discussion.
- skyyler 1y agoCiabatta was invented in 1982, which blows my mind.
- arp242 1y agoI did not know that; surprising indeed! I was reading the other day how modern olive oil is actually quite different from the olive oil people used for millennia: https://aeon.co/essays/extra-virgin-olive-oil-is-the-flavour-of-mechanisation https://aeon.co/essays/extra-virgin-olive-oil-is-the-flavour...
- sksksk 1y agoThe japanese katsu curry was developed when British sailors brought curry powder over from India to Japan