food.

on saturday night, the whole Fam and i ate a hefty meal of mexican food (homemade chips & salsa, enchiladas, rice, beans, flan) at a great restuarant. then on sunday afternoon, i made a kind of south-asian compilation-- fried noodles and coconut and cabbage and pork and ginger and mushrooms and stuff.

so i was thinking, it's so very cool that we can make (at least our own versions of) the same stuff they make across the ocean. what a neat experience, you know? but, what if you lived 100 years ago (or more) when they didn't really travel across the pond much? you would probably be amazed that we know what everyone else eats, and can to some extent replicate it ourselves. because back then, unless someone you know had been to china and made chinese food for you, you'd probably never know what chinese food was because you'd never be there. isn't that weird? or if you lived in russia, you'd never really hear of or care about eating mexican food unless you went to mexico. i don't really know why, but this is just so strange to me. i can't imagine it.

it's just another great side effect of globalism and multiculturalism, folks. ;)