Hey y’all, TrashcanOfIdeology formally introducing myself.
I picked the username right after watching the pervert’s guide to ideology and before 
started having a string of bad to worse, to awful, takes.
I’ve been around since the time the subreddit got banned, and this community has really been amazing in so many ways. For example, I don’t think I would’ve had the information, support, and felt as confident to realize I am/come out as nb had it not been for y’all. So, thanks!
A little bit about me:
- From the Global South, immigrated to an imperial core nation for a variety of reasons.
- I’m very, very into food. Almost obsessively so. Not only the act of cooking itself or the growing/preparation of ingredients (i love those, too), but the social, ecological, environmental, and philosophical questions around food, taste, and gastronomic culture and justice. I worked in professional kitchens on and off for several years, did a masters on food and anthropology, and since covid began I have been lucky to make a modest living as a food scholar and supporting food activists. I’ll talk your ear off about any of that kind of stuff, so if y’all wanna talk food i’m your person.
- I love dogs, and will likely adopt a lil’ puppy sometime soon. As soon as they come to my place, i’ll introduce them to you :)
Great to make your acquaintance 
I had one single food cultures class in uni and it changed a lot about how I see my own cooking; finally opened my eyes to the social function of food, really. I have always liked good food, but more from an egoistic-hedonistic place than anything else.
Food is great, but more great is eating it with other people, the whole getting together and enjoying as a community part of it. And it does nourish us in ways that caloric value doesn’t do justice as a measurement.
Anyways, any great food culture media you wanna recommend maybe? I’m open for reading or anything audio-visual, podcasts, whatever really.
Not the person who you responded to but you might appreciate the micro-history work of Mark Kurlansky, in particular Salt: A World History which really does live up to its name as it weaves together the socio-politico-economic history of salt production and use across the globe, obviously centring the culinary side a lot (but perhaps not as much as you might expect.)
