I spent most of my life thinking I disliked potatoes.
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I spent most of my life thinking I disliked potatoes. Turns out I just dislike the way most people make potatoes (poorly seasoned). The Mexicans and Peruvians changed my mind about potato
Now making it my goal to try more varieties of potato
Papa - Peruvian Potatoes
Potatoes were domesticated as early as 10,000 years ago in the High Andes of southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia. During centuries the Papa developed to be an important staple food and a primary energy source for early Peruvian cultures.
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@skinnylatte Potatoes are delicious! But I grew up with mashed potatoes that were made with caramelized onions, toasted garlic, paprika, and whatever dairy we had in the fridge (buttermilk is really good, but sour cream or regular milk also work). The bland lumps that are basically just potatoes + butter are just so bland.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
Moving to this side of the world has been amazing for my culinary discovery. I know many people shit on ‘food in America’, but it was here that I started developing an understanding of food from the Americas. Mexico, Peru, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador (and just scratching the surface). Even Chinese Venezuelan, Chinese Peruvian, Japanese Peruvian.
I also resent that when people say ‘American food is X’, they are excluding other types of people who are here, who have amazing food.
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@SRLevine yes, love those types of potato preparation. Anything topped with cheese or cream, especially French and southern styles, I really like too.
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@skinnylatte I think people who shit on food in America usually have a very narrow view of what “American food” is. American food is a melting pot. American food is Cheesecake Factory sure but it’s also kebab and Ethiopian and Indian and Creole and and and
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Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm:replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte counterpoint: hamburgers are amazing.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm: last edited by
@tob yes!
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@RainofTerra and the Native foods im learning about and trying!
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There’s a shop in SF Chinatown that has been around since before the state of California, and the idea of refrigeration, was a thing. They do cured Chinese meats the same way they’ve been doing it since they got here.
Which means I, a Chinese person who eats widely across Asia, only encountered ‘artisanal’ Chinese cured meats here. There is a place in Rosemead run by VN Chinese immigrants that does the same.
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@skinnylatte I think people mostly rag on the food sold in large chains in the USA, such as the horrible "bread" that tends to get sold in stores.
I've heard rumors that better bread exists, but you really have to know where to look.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Jürgen Hubert last edited by
@juergen_hubert In Ireland, the best place to get proper German-style rye bread is Polish shops.
Perhaps it's like that in USA, too.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley @juergen_hubert ultra processed food, though Americans do it very well (in that it is horrible and probably bad for your health. Yet the most accessible food for poor people here and elsewhere) is hardly exclusive to here now. It’s in every rich country and is making up more and more of the diet everywhere. The main diff is permissive food regulation that allows certain ingredients that would be banned elsewhere, into our bread and milk
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@riley @juergen_hubert meantime if you live in a big city, there is good bread; if you live in a place with a strong Polish / German origin somewhere in the Midwest there are probably local bread traditions which are interesting. I agree you have to make an effort to find the things you like. There are all sorts of wonderful things by all the different communities. The standard stuff is not good, but again that is a story of industrialization and this place being the epicenter of that
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@riley @juergen_hubert @skinnylatte In big cities there are good bakeries from different traditions; in smaller US towns it can be hard to find a bread bakery at all, apart from the ones inside chain groceries.
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@Moss @riley @juergen_hubert also a bigger question of only chains are surviving for any business (retail, food) in many U.S. small towns
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Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte What is the place in Rosemead? I'd love to try it.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 last edited by
@AdrianRiskin Quang Tran. In the same area as a VN Teochew restaurant called Kim Ky, who has seafood egg noodles (dry style with soup on the side) that was set up by family members of the noodle shop I love here in SF, with similar food