• anon6789@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Food needs to be traditional as much as it needs to be modern.

    It’s great we are still pushing culinary boundaries, but sometimes you just need a comfort food.

    Traditional dishes remind us of where we’ve come from, either literally reminding us of our homeland if we’ve moved, or reminding us of our ancestors, or figuratively by making us think of our childhoods or of grandma’s famous holiday sides.

    It’s the reason we eat green beans casserole on Thanksgiving, but never any other day of the year, or why we still crave a PBJ or Hot Pocket.