torpid
10mo ago
I met this woman at a friend's birthday party who was early 30s, corporate lawyer, she said the last thing she had cooked herself was something like 6 months earlier and it was an egg. She and her partner just order out for every meal. Very real in big cities in America.
torpid
1yr ago
It has to do with standardization, you're specifying to use salt that has this size and composition so your seasoning is the same as the recipe creator. Chefs like kosher salt because the grains are larger than in regular table salt (which is rather fine) but not as large as say a finishing sea salt which might be really big and flaky. They also don't have any anti-caking agents, so I guess it's more "pure"? In general it's also saltier due to having more sodium content, so if you substitute just regular table salt instead of kosher salt, your dish will be under-seasoned in my experience. None of it has to do with religion for most Americans, product just happened to be good enough to become a standard for chefs.
I don't know about that. I feel like Native American culture is having a little bit of a moment, popular shows like Reservation Dogs, there's the new movie Killers of the Flower Moon, I've heard the phrase "Land Back" a lot more in recent times. Things like land acknowledgments are a thing, at least in certain liberal cities.
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