Ill make it quick here before this ends up as drafts
Its been on my mind.
I find it as a red flag if you do feel that way about the opening paragraphs of some recipe you wanted to find because idk its your fault! You made ads necessary. you made unprofitable ads and SEO a thing on the internet!
Back in the day i followed someone on twitter who was ahead of their career. Got their head on straight. Doesnt do jokes on twitter but recognizes the bullshit that happens in their career field that keeps my head on right as well.
Then they announced something similar to this website. This could even be their website, it was way more basic back then. Just some basic html web scraper that “only gets the step by step recipes”
And i didnt comment on it back then but
It kind of broke my brain chemistry. i unfollowed them.
When you think of these tech people and their disconnect of the humanities. Or humanity.
Im thinking ghost kitchen concepts where if you type in some app “cheeseburger” theoretically it would show you a list of restaurants that can deliver you their cheeseburger. Or it could be some fake place in some no name warehouse building that would just make one for you. [every Denny's has a side name ghost business to make a burger for you. Idk how this applies down the line to business taxes, to labor rights of a persons job description, etc]
You can tell the difference between a red robin burger from an in n out. But forget the branding, heres a burger because you typed in burger. And then that trickles down to something foreign say i dont know…pho
"I dont care where i get Pho. Just make and deliver me pho!" And you click on one of the top 3 options in those ghost kitchen apps based on some hunch. shit reviews from shit people, flavor descriptors idk
Now you know me, i care where my pho comes from [I do worry 10 years down the line, the only pho shops alive will be Pho Bros or Pho Brothers/Pho'K You millenial shit] . But to these people, they dont. they want the soylent version of pho, whatever can come quickest to their mouths without struggle. And they apply it to every fucking thing that has come out of their heads and computers since. apply this to media. apply this to art. apply this to music.
But i dont think thats how food works.
Same way you know these fusion restaurants or “white person creates ethnic restaurant with neon signs” suck. You know theres a difference in quality. they dont have true hands to the soil of what makes this food click.
[you read this story from the Phoenix New Time. i cant believe, well i do believe, that some of the beautiful abandoned roosevelt houses are being held hostage by some landlord who wants to bring in gentrified tacos. there used to be a great vintage store in one of those!]
and i have belief its in the story.
and yeah i know the meme of "the story". some person wrote something that started off with 9/11 ok. well idk! shit what was your comfort food during 9/11? i bet you have a comfort food for the pandemic! didn't Anthony Bourdain had a whole sequence of making something in the kitchen to keep his mind alive during a war conflict in a city?
and of course. all this shit is verrrry gender-hating based. probably one of the few avenues of someone who is good at cooking to be like...oh i can spread my arms and brain and type some stuff beyond what I do with pots and pans about where I was inspired of this cooking. fuck!
you see.
everytime i come home and get some food from my mom. some pho. some bun bo hue.
she goes off into memory about being young where she lived and there was some lunch cart women up a hill who made these foods she couldn't afford. "they made a good bun rieu. but i couldnt afford it. so I learned how to make it myself" she would mention repeatedly, and i would keep my mouth shut to tell her I heard this before because I worry theres some alzheimers creeping in or something.
but i get additional details each time. i write it down. sometimes she gets the spare veggies when a vendor is done for the day last time i checked.
food has stories. food is made from memories.
outtakes
i can't believe they are charging money for this shit. you are just as fucked as the websites youre getting the recipes from!
you should have been running slants with a chef working behind peyton manning is what im saying etcetera etcetera not a web scraper! imagine knowing someone who gets recipes from Chatgpt
imagine putting a web scraper on Maangchi for your bullshit cooking night
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