And if you think about it, that sums up probably about 90% of most dishes.
Since mankind started exploring and bringing back plants and animals and taking their own plants and animals, cuisines all over the world started using ingredients from all over the world.
It gets even weirder *not exactly the word I want, but I can't think what word to use* when you start realizing how many of the foods we have today are only here because people started hybridizing plants (if I recall, most citrus isn't 'natural' but the result of humans hybridizing five different plants)
So the history of food is indeed 'I created this dish and my neighbor took it, changed one ingredient and now calls it 'my neighbor's dish''. It then goes even further because the one person then goes 'I then found this new ingredient and created a brand new dish and called it 'MY new dish'' but it could have only been created by someone else bringing ingredients or inspiration back from a different place.
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Re: TorisMAO
(Anonymous) 2025-05-26 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)And if you think about it, that sums up probably about 90% of most dishes.
Since mankind started exploring and bringing back plants and animals and taking their own plants and animals, cuisines all over the world started using ingredients from all over the world.
It gets even weirder *not exactly the word I want, but I can't think what word to use* when you start realizing how many of the foods we have today are only here because people started hybridizing plants (if I recall, most citrus isn't 'natural' but the result of humans hybridizing five different plants)
So the history of food is indeed 'I created this dish and my neighbor took it, changed one ingredient and now calls it 'my neighbor's dish''. It then goes even further because the one person then goes 'I then found this new ingredient and created a brand new dish and called it 'MY new dish'' but it could have only been created by someone else bringing ingredients or inspiration back from a different place.