Food writing for people who distrust food writing. A good meal is rarely the whole story. Not travel writing. Not restaurant reviewing.
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The Swiss Found a Way to Make Yoghurt Democratic
Inevitably, This Required Committees.
Switzerland is famously capitalist. Its two biggest food retailers are cooperatives.
At Migros, members were asked whether its supermarkets should sell alcohol.
The campaign produced two beers, Oui and Non. All ten regional cooperatives voted Non. The beer stayed off the shelves.
Outside a village shop in Sils, a machine offered a smaller form of participation. Milk.
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Nobody seems to ask who invented the Australian sausage sizzle. It became Australian by turning up outside schools, hardware stores and polling places.
Avocado toast got a more complicated origin story.
The Land Before Avocado π₯
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How to spot a foreigner at a Melbourne cafΓ©:
βCan I get three venti caramel frappuccino with extra whipped cream, extra syrup, oat milk, and a drizzle on top?β β at Melbourne, Victoria
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How to spot a foreigner at an Australian pub:
βIβll have three Fosterβs, please.β
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How to spot a foreigner trying to surf at Bondi:
βThree of us. Weβll surf between the red and yellow flags. Thatβs the safe zone, right?β
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How to spot an American at an Australian sausage sizzle:
βThree hot dogs, please.βοΏΌ #Auspol
How to spot a foreigner at a Melbourne cafΓ©:
βCan I get three venti caramel frappuccino with extra whipped cream, extra syrup, oat milk, and a drizzle on top?β β at Melbourne, Victoria
Nobody seems to ask who invented the Australian sausage sizzle. It became Australian by turning up outside schools, hardware stores and polling places.
Avocado toast got a more complicated origin story.
The Land Before Avocado π₯
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When does a person become a sailor: before leaving the harbour, or only after finding their way back?
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Nobody asks who invented the sausage sizzle. It became Australian at fundraisers and on election day.
Avocado toast became Australian through everything around it: sourdough, a flat white, the beach and a breakfast that can last half the afternoon.
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People cross borders. Recipes do too. Rice meets pasta, families change countries, and nobody is quite sure where everything began.
The pilaf keeps showing up on the table anyway.
Sometimes being lost has nothing to do with geography.
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Local legend says porchetta began as a meal for gods, pork sacrificed to Jupiter above Lake Albano. Centuries later, the popes made the far side of the lake their summer retreat.
At Cioli porchetta comes in bread. Across the street it comes with a fork.
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In 1958, John XXIIIβs cassock was too small. Tailors opened the back and held it with safety pins.
The crowd saw apostolic continuity. Someone behind him saw safety pins.
Sometimes grandeur needs safety pins. Sometimes it tastes like pasta.
lostbutwellfed.substack.com/β¦ β at Rome, Lazio
Ask a taco de carnitas where the pork came from and it stops being lunch. It becomes an excavation.
Every plate is sitting on top of something. Most people just eat.
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Some cities preserve tradition by leaving things untouched.
Turin does the opposite, spending centuries transforming foreign ingredients local by changing them.
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