Storytelling dedicated to food origins and culture, centering the perspectives of global majority populations and diasporas. Podcast network @whetstoneradio
Known as ou tenga in Assamese, this large, round, greenish-yellow fruit came to be called elephant apple because it is a popular food among wild elephants, who have been known to play a key role in dispersing the seeds of the tree.
@without_sans writes for #RASA Journal.
The Netherlands' famous “Indonesian” restaurants are a cuisine created by Indo-European immigrants. As @dorothy_porker writes, what you get is Indisch food, a colonial foodway that mixes Chinese and Indonesian influences with those from Portugal, France and the Netherlands.
In Texcoco, Mexico, Sunday barbacoa is a multigenerational and communal affair.
Invited to partake in Sunday barbacoa by chef and historian Norma Listman-Sanchez, writer Bella Luna reflects on the conviviality of the experience for Whetstone Vol. 2.
Enjoy these excerpts from poems written by students at the Tenderloin Community School in San Francisco. Working with the literacy organization @826valencia, they had the opportunity to read them aloud, so you can hear the work directly from the artists!