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June 21, 2005
Fourth of July food- burgers, hot dogs, and plantain escabeche?
Steak grilled Thai-style (Photo- Linda Spillers, NYT)
Good story in the NY Times about the 39th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a 10-day event starting tomorrow on the National Mall in Washington:
For the first time, the festival will devote an entire program to food culture, celebrating the revolution in cooking and farming that has taken place in the United States over the last 40 years. The tradition and innovation of American cuisine will be explored through the cooking of recent immigrants, as Ms. Daks once was; the sustainable agriculture movement; and the role chefs and cooks play."The intersection is where the term food revolution comes from," said Stephen Kidd, a curator of the program. "Things people think of as new have a strong connection to the culture of the past,"
Interesting perspective on how accesible ingredients that were once considered exotic in this country are now, and the continuing assimilation of our culture through food.
Well worth reading the whole thing, I think.
Thanks to John for the link.
Posted by The Pragmatic Chef at June 21, 2005 6:09 PM
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