Making food history
Has anyone noticed the number of duck recipes on US foodie blogs since Tuesday? The wave of recipes celebrating the Democrat’s political victory (or Bush’s finishing his term in office as a lame-duck president) may pass by tomorrow and be forgotten except when grandparents tell their grandchildren in fifty years time “And the last time I cooked duck was in ‘06. Ah, that was an election.” If we’re really lucky, though, one recipe will capture enough people’s imagination and it will become a standard.
If anyone has a sublime duck recipe that they think ought to become a standard please send it to me. I don’t have much in the way of duck recipes and besides, new events that the public spontaneously commemorate with cooking are reasonably rare. And besides, I’m Australian so it’s not my election. I will blog your recipes and we can all have a share in the fascinating proces of watching a country add to their culinary history. Let’s all watch politics blend into foodways. Frabjous stuff.
It’s just as fascinating from my end if no-one sends me recipes, to be honest. It’s an indicator that this is just a tiny blip on the food history radar. Just as frabjous - blips are just as much the stuff of history as changes to the food calendar due to political events. They’re way harder to track, though.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:57 am
There has to be a recipe for lame duck soup out there! Best served cold?
November 15th, 2006 at 1:02 am
Like revenge? Alas, no-one has sent me duck recipes at all. I fear duck recipes were a one-day blogfad.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:10 am
I guess I hadn’t been paying close enough attention to the post election cuisine guidelines.
It is amazing, how even on a food blog, you can find a bit of politics everywhere.
November 16th, 2006 at 4:32 am
Some elections give more food outcomes than others. Most Australian elections don’t get blogged - but this US one was rather important and obviously touched people closely. I loved observing it.