Of the earth

[deschampsia]

Something that has been bugging me for years came up again in my recent food reading and that is the idea of terroir, the sense that something is of the place that it comes from. I find this idea to be both tremendous and challenging. It is the utter opposite of our global homogenized world culture

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[cda]

even though I rarely get to indulge in them, bay area burritos are the food I miss when I'm not here. I have not encountered anything similar anywhere else.

[deschampsia]

How did I forget all the Mexican ingredients in my cupboard? California burritos are, indeed, unique, though I grew up on them in L.A. and was vastly disappointed in the Mexican food available here when I moved up. It has improved vastly in 20 years.

My complaint about terroir is really that I get tired of having so many disseperate ingredients in my cupboard. We are, I suspect, simply too wealthy in culture, influence, and available ingredients.