Soup porn!

[swussian]

One day I'll write an essay about how cooking shows are just like porn. Everyone knows that it's not what cooking looks like in real life, but it makes you want food, even if they cook something you don't really like. Both appeal to very primary needs. I'll write a longer thing about it, sometime

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[dancing_moon]

d00d. Can you translate Meat solyanka or give me a good recipe for it? I ate the german school cafeteria version and even that was good!

Why don't you think modern cookbooks are porny? I find many of them are even more so. It's like, if Vår kokbok is the Kama Sutra with instructions, images and makes you believe that hey, I could also do this! Maybe! With a lot of training...
Then a lot of modern cookbooks contain huge glossy images of food, but few or badly written instructions. It's like a cheap tittie-mag, where you know it's unatainable and airbrushed, but it still looks delicious. Well. Provided tits and food turn you on.

[swussian]

Receptet som jag knappt ens orkar översätta till svenska, än mindre till engelska
För 0,5 liter soppa:
125 g ben för att koka köttbuljong
40 g kött
20 g skinka (med skinn)
20 g småkorv (alltså såna där man har i bröd, intetyp falukorv)
45 g kokta njurar
50 g gul lök
30 g saltgurka
10 g ehh.... kapris?
30 g oliver
25 g tomatpuré
10 g smör
30 g smetana (y'know what I mean?)
en citronklyfta
5 g gröna örter
lagerblad
svartpepparkorn
salt

Hacka lök och passera den i smöret, lägg till tomatpuré och passera i ytterligare 5-8 minuter.
I kokande stark buljong (recept på omslaget, 0,3 l köttbiljong helt enkelt) hälls lök, gurka, kapris, oliver, köttprodukter, kryddor. Koka i 5-10 min. Mot slutet adderas salt och smetana. Serveras med citron och hackat grönt. ENJOY!

On modern booksI just think the protographs are often too... photographic? Just plain "here's the food looking pretty". In older book, there are usually fewer pictures, but it's more work behind them, the compositions are more carefully prepared, like, still-lifes; while in modern

[swussian]

Spell check should be my friend, yes....

[dancing_moon]

...kokta njurar? tror jag skippar det x_x

Smetana vet jag tyvärr inte vad det är. Möjligt jag känner igen om jag ser/smakar på det men inte på namnet. En vild gissning är gräddfilsliknande saker men det slängde de i tillsammans med citronen när jag åt, så jag kan ha fel. Paprikapulver? Är ju en vanligt förekommande sak i ungerska rätter iaf

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You are right about how the process is shown better. I also get a feel that in modern cookbooks, they choose the food to photo after it's aestethic value, which is why slabs of raw meat rarely make it. Here they more often show the important things which makes a lot more sense.

[zimbach]

Home decorating shows are a lot like porn too, especially the way my mother watches them. Getting all overstimulated at idealized and exaggerated images, demanding an unattainable standard of beauty. It's all well and good if you understand that's what you're seeing, but it goes too far if you expect that in real life. If it should happen in real life, that's great, but it shouldn't be expected.

[swussian]

EEEEEEEEXACTLY!

[alitna]

det här är som vintage porn. Vanliga matbilder är så svettiga och svulstiga och färgglada. Liksom sådär när man har sprejat maten och preparerat den som bara tusan för att det ska se "snyggt" ut. Ungefär som mcdonaldshamburgarna.

[swussian]

Mmm. Och de moderna matfotonektarinerna är egentligen rakade persikor.