Getting Hungry
I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. It wasn't diverse in any way at that time, but I had one advantage: my parents were open-minded about more things than most, and so I learned to try new things by their example.
The most obvious model of this behavior involved food. My folks both grew up in white-bread America, so for them, exotic food meant Chinese or Italian. Note that most Chinese food from restaurants at that time was highly Americanized, and had far more in common with Chun King than Peking. Still, it was new to us, with unfamiliar textures, ingredients, and flavors, and that was intriguing.
I remember a couple of visits to Milwaukee before I was 12. There used to be a...
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The most obvious model of this behavior involved food. My folks both grew up in white-bread America, so for them, exotic food meant Chinese or Italian. Note that most Chinese food from restaurants at that time was highly Americanized, and had far more in common with Chun King than Peking. Still, it was new to us, with unfamiliar textures, ingredients, and flavors, and that was intriguing.
I remember a couple of visits to Milwaukee before I was 12. There used to be a...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2020/01/13/gett...
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