A short while back was listening to NPR and learned of an intriguing documentary series called Hidden Kitchens. The particular segment I heard focused on the simplicity of Basque-American cooking.I love what people like the Hidden Kitchens folk, Southern Foodways Alliance, Vertamae Grosvenor and Marcus Samuelsson are doing. In particular, since Hidden Kitchens has such broad distribution by NPR the way that the series pays attention to how culture and living history are passed along through culinary traditions is significant. After all, as one of my favorite culinary anthropologists Jessica B. Harris has said: If food is on the table, then history is on the plate.
Now all we need is more folk like Slow Food International to tie a strong knot binding foodways and ecological sustainability . Matter of fact, let's take it a step further and tie in the piece having to do with respecting traditional modes of spirituality and their sacred connection to the Earth.
