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Cooking up culture

Posted on November 12, 2007
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I wonder if I am preaching to the converted with this post, but one of the things we have been implementing is a monthly(ish!) ‘culture cooking’ session. We choose a different country (or historical period) each session - and then try to cook and eat a meal from that place. This has been a great success with my ‘picky’ eaters and we have tried lots of foods we wouldn’t normally eat. It has been fun thinking up new ideas or incorporating our current interests - for example, during the Gold Rush the miners ate ’sow-belly and beans’ or ‘Bear steaks’!! We declined both and settled for a cowboy meal of sausages, beans and rice instead!

We have also tried, where possible, to adopt the table manners of the country/culture whose food we are eating. I haven’t found a comprehensive site for this, but a google search usually unearths the information you need. There are also lots of recipes on the web, although we did find the Round the World Cookbook to be useful - I think the current version is: Internet-lin ked Children’s World Cookbook, or for vegetarians : Vegetarian Cooking Around the World.

If you fancy trying this, but don’t know where to start, then there is an e-course at Universal Class. But here are some of the more unusual ideas we have used :

Cowboy - Sausages, beans and rice (cooked around the campfire!)
American Indian - Chicken drumsticks (to represent buffalo!!), corn on the cob, Indian Fry Bread, beef jerky. Or try a recipe from here.
Enid Blyton Famous Five - We had egg, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, slices of ham, a fruit cake and bottles of ginger beer!
South African - Bobotie
Ancient Egyptian - this is to be next. I have a recipe for Egyptian pastries, and we will try Ful with pitta bread. We are going to try to make Egyptian ice-cream if I can get the ingredients. And of course, I will have to have a beer, for authenticity!!