I used to feel strange about Beyond/Impossible meatlike products, but then I was reading a medieval cookbook and I learned that disguising your vegetables to look and taste like meat is a human practice going back centuries. It just kinda died out (edit: in western countries) with the rise of the modern meat industry and was rediscovered in a new context with the rise of veganism.
but then I was reading a medieval cookbook and I learned that disguising your vegetables to look and taste like meat is a human practice going back centuri
never went away in probably most non-western cultures. dishes like chai pow yu being an ancient mock meat that is still widely eaten today
I used to feel strange about Beyond/Impossible meatlike products, but then I was reading a medieval cookbook and I learned that disguising your vegetables to look and taste like meat is a human practice going back centuries. It just kinda died out (edit: in western countries) with the rise of the modern meat industry and was rediscovered in a new context with the rise of veganism.
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the buddhists made an art form out of that shit and continue to do it because its cheap as hell to produce.
never went away in probably most non-western cultures. dishes like chai pow yu being an ancient mock meat that is still widely eaten today