Slow Food, White feminists writing and speaking about "ethnic" kitchens
So I like the idea of Slow Food very much. Slowing down, cooking for ourselves rather than grabbing something on the way to somewhere, paying attention to ingredients, flavor. Also, sustainability and local foods. Paying attention
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Especially given all the amazing stuff going on in Detroit from the links (THANK YOU) you gave below? What a doofus.
The restaurant we went to this morning, though, was thankfully nowhere near as st00pid. It started out 32 years ago as a women's center, and the owner said she wanted there to be food, so ... restaurant. They also wanted a bookstore, so half the place is a tiny feminist bookstore.
She's this tiny Jewish* lady who wears an apron and walks around talking to everybody. Everything is self-service -- you get your own coffee, water, tea. They shout your name (the restaurant is about as big as a large living room) when your food is ready and you go get it. When you're done you clear your own dishes.
During the talk by The Author**, the noise of cleaning up from the kitchen made it very hard for anyone to hear. So the owner quietly went into the kitchen and invited the staff to put down the dishes and come hear the author speak. About as clueful and feminist a way to handle that as I could hope for.
*She told my partner she was Jewish when he was asking about a bread recipe and she told him about starting with burnt bread crumbs. "An old Jewish trick," she said. :-)
**Who was, to be fair, about five steps away from actually having a clue although she did use "American" when she meant "middle class White people," e.g. "American habits of thought that erase culture from food."
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