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Unique in the Same Ways

A week ago I was standing in a Tehran bakery observing the bread making process and just as fascinating, the customers interactions with the baker. Yesterday I stood in my Tokyo kitchen with K as she opens up the rice cooker. She turns to me and says "You'll never understand the true meaning of freshly cooked rice". Its true - you can't instantly adopt a life time of emotional attachment with an object, when you consider the thousands of ways it makes it way into your psyche.

But every culture, every person has its equivilent of the fresh-out-of-the-oven experience it's just a matter of figuring out what it is. Your culture's appreciation of [insert emotional food experience here] may be unique. Every culture unique, they just so happen to be unique in the same ways.

Writing from Tokyo | November 7, 2006 | Permalink