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I have some time so I figured I would fill out the food meme for today.

You can find the meme here : https://maevedarcy.dreamwidth.org/2026/04/27/

sorry for the ugly link.   I’ll learn how to make future links prettier another day.

Food related questions that will make you hungry

What is a food you loved as a child but do not enjoy anymore?

My dad was a fisherman, or, likely still is somewhere.  Anyway, my parents would fry up fresh water fish coated in cornmeal.  my favourite were yellow perch which are small delicate little fish with soft buttery flesh.  Now, I don’t eat any sort of meat and seemed to have a lessened physiological ability to take it in even before I became a vegetarian.  Maybe it’s mercury or pollution.  maybe my tastes have just changed.   I don’t know.

What’s a food you used to dislike but now enjoy?  There are so many! I think the top of the list for me is probably avocado.  As a kid the only familiarity I had with avocado was through nasty fast food guacamole.  fresh ripe (but not overripe) avocado is a whole other thing.   it’s so good. 

What changed?  I think just exposure to the fresh whole ingredient than the chemical slurry.

If you could eat only one cuisine for the rest of your life, which would you choose?  French Provincial vegetarian.  French country cooking minus the meat.   I cook most of my food from scratch and it’s my predominant cooking style although there  are some southern USA, Indian and middle eastern ingredients and recipes thrown in the mix.
 
What food instantly makes you feel comforted or happy?  Lately two things: raspberry coulis and hoecakes made with coarse blue cornflour.

What food reminds you most of your childhood?  White rice with butter, white sugar and cinnamon or a cheese sandwich on white bread with pickle slices, mayo and yellow mustard.

Are there any foods you think are overrated?  Factory produced junk food maybe?  Things with petroleum products added.  Doritos?  Any foods that need ads to make people crave them.  

What traditional dish from your country would you recommend to a visitor?  Chess pie perhaps maybe a Rueben if they eat meat?

Who is the best cook you know, and what makes their food special?   I am the only cook I know but since I can’t pick myself, I’ll choose my old kitchen manager Ebo or my my mother.  Ebo was an incredible cook and a kind man who taught me how to make French omelets and raspberry coulis.  My mother was a budget friendly southern cook who taught me lots of French techniques without even realizing it and topped it off by making me tons of hoecakes. 💖