Well, soul food came about as an attempt to make the scraps and lousy garbage food given to slaves palatable. And on a less oppressive note, Japanese food seems to consist a lot of taking whatever was lying around and trying to make it edible becasue there's not a lot of agriculture you can do in Japan.
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Date: 2010-04-13 09:40 am (UTC)