Just saw a story about people who make and eat ‘human kibble’.
It’s so far out of my realm of understanding, culturally and socially, to see food as a drag, and something to minimize and productivize.
But I understand that not everyone has access to food as a pathway to connecting with people, culture, community, migrant pasts and shared history.
Food to me is experiencing the world through someone else’s tastes, sharing a table with people I have never met, being fed by random aunties who love to cook for strangers; and of course all of the shared joy of participating in food-based rituals in the cultures I enjoy being a part of.