Somehow makes food history dull & biased
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“As an avid consumer of food media as well as an accomplished and widely traveled home cook, I have tried to like this show. The recent Bean episode is a good example. I’ve cooked beans from scratch all my life. I’ve lived, worked and traveled in Asia and Latin America, we are beans are part of nearly every meal in some form or another.
The perspective given in the show was that “civilization” arose because of the benefits of farmed legumes in Mesopotamia. It seems like a bit of willful ignorance to fail to note that the ancient Inca, Maya, Mexica and Aztec cultures thrived around the same periods of time - and cultivated beans.
Archaeological records also indicate that legumes were extensively farmed in what is now northern Korea and China. Perhaps legumes had some impact on the rise of those civilizations as well?
Or the several varieties of beans and peas grown in sub-Saharan Africa?
Or are they simply not included because they don’t bear on a Eurocentric identity?
I know this sounds like nitpicking, but it reflects a larger pattern of Eurocentric bias in this show.
Food history happened everywhere human beings ate. Either be more clear in your statements, for example, “Mediterranean and European cultural development benefited from Mesopotamian cultivation of legumes”, or touch on the other civilizations also.
The time is over for non-European cultures to be relegated to the “ethnic aisle. “”
Sonomarina via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/11/20
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