Sharing includes the work before dinner
By Stories around the table · myAudience

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Food heritage can involve farming, preserving, markets, preparation and the shared meal. Looking only at a finished plate misses much of the knowledge behind it. Try asking someone who cooks what they learned from another person and what they changed for their own kitchen. This is an original conversation prompt, not a claim that one family speaks for a whole region or that a culture has one fixed cuisine.