highlycaffeinatedhorsewriter replied to your post “It’s not really a secret, but it’s not really well-known and I don’t...”
There’s an entire TEDtalk on power posing and how “faking it till you make it” can literally rewire your brain to make more positive connections. You can become more confident just by imitating the things confident people do, for example. I highly recommend everyone watch it, I cannot remember the name but I think if you look up power posing it should come up.
I have to say I was always a bit suspicious of the power posing thing because it involves some wacky gender essentialism (at least one study based their results on testosterone/estrogen levels, with raised testosterone indicating increased confidence) and lately there’s been some evidence that the theory suffers from p-hacking/poor sample size issues. So on the one hand it may not be valid biologically -- but on the other hand, if it works, even just psychologically, it can be of use!
kink-tomato replied to your photo “Microwave a potato, you ask? MICROWAVE A POTATO, I SAY. Mum and I...”
The US does casseroles though, isn’t that a pretty broad “American” style of cooking? Although to be fair, I don’t think of them as coming to prominence until the 50s so they could be a product of more efficient ovens intersecting with wartime scarcity necessitating experimentation, and a bit of an outlier.
I don’t actually know how prevalent casseroles are in US cooking -- certainly they were very common in the 50s/60s, which was right around the time a lot of suburban building with new Mod Cons was going on, just after wartime scarcity.
Some days I want to throw it all in a creek and go back to school to be a food anthropologist, guys.
niennanir replied to your photo “Microwave a potato, you ask? MICROWAVE A POTATO, I SAY. Mum and I...”
Steve was literally not kidding at all when he talks about food in CA:WS "We used to boil everything." America's a nation of historical stew eaters, most of it because of westward expansion and the fact that stew is the most economical food prep method. A country of immigrants, pinching every penny, and trickling from one coast to the other isn't going to rely on an oven. It's only in the last century that we've really been expanding our culinary culture.
This is my theory, but I don’t even know how I would go about testing it, let alone supporting it with evidence. :D
persian-slipper replied to your post “sailingthesapphireblue replied to your photo “Microwave a potato,...”
I still don't understand Yorkshire puddings even after watching the episode of GBBO where they made them.
Well, if you’ve ever had a popover, they’re basically the same thing. They’re rather like very crunch crepes if you could turn a crepe into a balloon.
