Comments on: World Feed https://www.saltshaker.net/20091021/world-feed Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Sun, 25 May 2014 13:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Evolution of the Trout https://www.saltshaker.net/20091021/world-feed#comment-220692 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:40:16 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=3044#comment-220692 […] have made peanut soups before, in West African, Bolivian, and Thai guises. I have even once, before, more than six years before, made a quinua and […]

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20091021/world-feed#comment-190814 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:16:33 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=3044#comment-190814 Wembley – it isn’t as if we haven’t had our own experiences with this, and my partner in particular, who grew up in an environment that would make your UK govt benefits look luxurious. But to suggest that one need to live in poverty simply because other people do, and not enjoy food, wine, or living when you are able, is pretty ridiculous. If you stop to look at what we actually ate, while it may have been gussied up on the plate to look pretty, there was nothing particularly decadent about it – it was simple fare – all of the recipes, while adapted for local ingredients and probably more carefully seasoned and prepared, are dishes, even if in altered form, that are part of the poverty level diets in the five countries mentioned.

]]> By: Wembley https://www.saltshaker.net/20091021/world-feed#comment-190810 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:24:25 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=3044#comment-190810 I guess it’s a bit of both. We recently had a go at eating at the level you might expect if you were on Govt “benefits” (welfare) in the UK. Not easy – the casualties are fresh fruit and veg…and you may begin to wish that you hadn’t developed a palate for wine!

Give it a try and see what you think,
Wembley

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20091021/world-feed#comment-190741 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:55:29 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=3044#comment-190741 In reply to Wembley.

If that’s a real question, rather than a bit of a dig at our inspired feast, the answer is, it depends where they live. Argentina is far too large to have one style of cuisine – in the north, the food is quite similar to that of Peru and Bolivia, and much of the diet is based on corn and potatoes, with a bit of meat – variable depending on what’s available. In the center of the country, meat, beef in particular, tends to be king, and it isn’t that expensive by comparison to other ingredients, much of the diet is very beef-heavy supplemented by potatoes, and in the south, there’s wild game, fish, fruits and vegetables. Argentina, just as a point, doesn’t come close to the poverty level of the countries we’re talking about.

]]> By: Wembley https://www.saltshaker.net/20091021/world-feed#comment-190740 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:38:19 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=3044#comment-190740 What decadence! What do poor people in Argentina eat?

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