Re:Native American restaurants
by WalterBright on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:05AM
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The idea that Native American food is only "ingredients" and not "dishes" seems bizarre to me.
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"dishes" require some form of transmission - people teaching their children how to make them, writing down recipes.
It's tough to maintain that continuity when writing is expensive or nonexistent, and the people who survived contact with Europeans were repeatedly forcibly resettled in different parts of the continent.