June 15 – Food?

Food? Existential
necessity, carries love.
Daily life structure

Grandma’s food was a conduit that transmitted love. Peasant women worked too hard and too much to find time to cuddle and play with the kids; instead, they would make their favourite dishes. This is another source for the ethical value of food – it carried love . From ‘Bread is practically sacred’: how the taste of home sustained my refugee parents By Aleksandar Hemon

Another well-written article from the Guardian. (UK)

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