Let’s Call It Assimilation Food | TASTE
Cold cuts on jasmine rice? Hmong sausage meatballs? Berbere bolognese? When immigrants begin to adapt to their surroundings, a whole new cuisine is formed.
go June 26, 2017 Let’s Call It Assimilation Food By: Soleil Ho Illustration: Simone Noronha What happens when immigrants have to adapt to cooking in a new home? A new cuisine, forged from sensory memories and new ingredients. Watching The Motel , a 2005 indie film about a Chinese-American family who own a motel in the middle of nowhere, was a revelation to me. I’ll always come back to the scene in which the mom, as a special dinnertime treat, buys McDonald’s for her family. She carefully unwraps the burgers and cuts them in half, placing each half on top of a bowl of white rice. I have never f
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