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Just wanted to highlight this from my column at the end of last week. We& #39;ve lost the knowledge of how to cook simply and we need to relearn it, and looking at other cultures can help us a lot.
Individual recipes are no replacement for an established food culture that weaves together relationships between dishes, seasons and health for an overall, lifelong diet. I say this as someone who writes A LOT of recipes.
These considerations are inherent to traditional food cultures. You don& #39;t need to worry about reducing waste, eating seasonally, healthily or affordably because those matters built into the food you eat anyway.
When I was a kid we KNEW that the day after eating Hainanese chicken rice there& #39;d be a plate of chicken fried with sesame oil and ginger because that was how you used up the leftover chicken. Even for me now, chicken rice doesn& #39;t feel complete until we have that the next day.
A food culture is a complex system of interrelationships between foods that takes centuries and generations to develop. Trying to re-engineer that one online recipe at a time is a nearly impossible task, and our health, economy and environment suffer from it.
Anyway, here& #39;s that column if you wanted to read it. https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/news/whats-for-dinner-adam-liaw-on-why-the-answer-is-more-important-than-you-think-20200521-h1o7s0">https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/n...
