"Peasant" food is food adapted to scarcity as Chris pointed out, and often, is the source of ingenious food preservation methods. Maple syrup is of course available to anyone who lives in the woods, as long as they know how. Peasant food is also, more often than not, closely tied to indigenous food preservation and storage methods. Butter is a milk preservation technique, as is creme fraiche, and of course cheese is an even better method. Andean folks learned how to freeze dry potatoes back in the mists of antiquity.It's food that helps cultures survive less than ideal circumstances.

In everything I see him in, David Chang has the greatest energy. He is the embodiment of chaos.

I grew up eating grits with sugar or syrup, which apparently i learned is not the norm lol

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