• rchive@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Another explanation is that American cuisine got wrecked by the Great Depression. Everything that had flavor was expensive. People’s inability to purchase and make certain foods stopped generational transfer of knowledge on how to make certain things. Thankfully, after several generations it’s finally recovering.

    “Ethnic” food (non European) wasn’t as affected as much.

    I heard an interview about a book on it a few years ago but now I can’t find it.