[HN Gopher] Researchers are studying the cooking traditions of t...
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Researchers are studying the cooking traditions of the FARC
Author : samizdis
Score : 69 points
Date : 2021-07-15 09:37 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com)
| severine wrote:
| Related: "Wartime & Military Cooking & Food", from Virginia Tech,
| has a lot of resources and looks really interesting too.
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| link: https://guides.lib.vt.edu/c.php?g=10336&p=5063099
| munk-a wrote:
| It's particularly interesting to me how their meals shifted when
| changing war circumstances forced them into more conservative
| cooking setups. But I really enjoyed this article for the look
| into sustenance cooking while trying to remain low profile.
|
| I am quite curious if the flour they acquired was hand-ground in
| querns out of rice and corn or if it was one of the "luxuries"
| they had to trade for.
| antihero wrote:
| > But after the government built houses for each former FARC
| member and their families, everyone started cooking at home,
| where kitchen duties have fallen on the shoulders of women,
| unlike their time in the guerrilla, when men and women cooked as
| equals.
|
| What a terrible shame. Without passing any judgement, going from
| an equal society created from desperation, since being given what
| they need to survive, returning to one of traditional roles.
| Ostrogodsky wrote:
| It was never an "equal society" +90% of the guerillas were men,
| as it always have been through time in all societies. Men are
| the ones who must fight.
| peteretep wrote:
| A quick Google has about 40% of FARC as being women; do you
| have a better source?
|
| https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/fa.
| ..
| timmyztimmyz wrote:
| Rachel Maddow calls for "non-violent" direct action against the
| Arizona Audit.
|
| https://rumble.com/vjxj0g-the-left-calling-for-dangerous-dir...
|
| When will someone lock up this commie bitch.
| FigmentEngine wrote:
| Never really understood how they fed them on Hoth either.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| Anthropologists, discovering for the first time what military
| people have known and written extensively about for literally
| thousands of years.
| ashtonkem wrote:
| What makes you think this is the first time anthropologists
| have studied military food? That's quite an extraordinary
| claim.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| Going by their professions of astonishment, if appears to be
| the first time _these_ anthropologists have thought about it.
| ashtonkem wrote:
| So one set of anthropologists didn't know something, which
| means that all of them don't? Is that your assertion?
|
| Seems kinda weird to go from "an anthropologist learned
| something" to "anthropologists are finally studying a
| thing".
| latenightcoding wrote:
| I have been wild camping a lot recently and I'm more curious
| about how they get enough drinkable water for everyone.
| ruined wrote:
| if you have a day or two in one spot, it's easy enough to
| purify surface water with a 50-gallon food-grade drum for
| settling and a few capfuls of bleach. they operate in pretty
| remote wilderness and may even be upstream of the cocaine labs
| where there won't be too much contamination.
|
| the process can be accelerated with a simple gravel and sand
| filter, and if you're thirsty enough nobody really minds
| crunchy water
| aunty_helen wrote:
| The article mentions Choco, the wettest place in the world.
| Daily rainfall and a banana leaf should do you right.
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