Bourdain: The Mexicans share a lot of traits with the Vietnamese. All of that good stuff, like the goat’s head soup, you’ll find in a lot of poorer cultures with powerful traditions, good food traditions. They use everything. They treasure that. Menudo and pozole in Mexico. In France you have cassoulet. In Brazil, feijoada. These are all poor folks’ food.When the rich people take the sirloin and the filet, the poor are left with the snouts and the hooves and whatever little bits of meat and animal protein they can get. They can’t go down to the green market and buy organic vegetables, pick up some tofu and a vitamin pack to compensate. They’ll take what they can get, and more often than not they devise these fiendish and lovely ways to make it into something wonderful. Those dishes are often fed back into the mainstream culture as a treasured staple. You see this time and time again.More Anthony
makes me want to do some travelling….Toot? Spain or Vietnam?
neither… korea
K, let’s go!