Comments on: Memories of Playing with Food in a West Coast Kitchen /2018/06/25/memories-of-a-playing-with-food-in-a-west-coast-kitchen/ Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:28:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: John McCreery /2018/06/25/memories-of-a-playing-with-food-in-a-west-coast-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:28:53 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=1343#comment-874 “One of the Rebar recipes that I first made with great care, and then, increasingly, with disregard for directions, is a squash and smoked cheddar tart with sage and roasted garlic custard. ”

As I read this sentence, I am reminded both of my mother’s response to questions about her recipes, “a little of this, a little of that” and Roy Wagner’s Invention of Culture, a book I have just begun to read. That food is central to identity, culture and community is undeniable. It is also a reminder that culture is experimentation as well as following recipes.

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