I love this. I’m mixed, and pretty much grew up eating random mixes of the standard American diet with Spanish and black influences. But always struggled with breakfast. In the past few years I’ve googled and surfed for other breakfast options and hated how 80% of YouTube tutorials were eggs, overnight oats, and avocado toast. I kept (and keep) thinking on how these cannot be the same dishes people have really eaten for years. I even searched for “morning soup”, and struggled to find many recipes. I did find most cultures had a version of porridge, like Koreans have Dakjuk. I tried to make it (recipe from TikTok) but still need to get the flavors right. But you’ve inspired me to keep searching and continue to leave the SAD diet. There’s better, more flavorful and healthier experiences to have for breakfast out there.
Yes! Please keep searching! And diets even across the world have become standardized to accommodate capitalism. I also struggled to find things that weren’t egg and bread based in other cultures.
So instead I have decided to make meals that seemed nutrient dense and light enough for dinner. Chicken tortilla soup, fish soup, beans etc. Drawing inspo from there!
I make it a point when I travel internationally or in other dense communities in nyc to learn where and what locals are eating for breakfast. Like going to a Yemeni cafe instead of the American cafe. Please let me know what inspiration you find!
I ditched the country breakfast of grits, eggs, some sort of pork, and biscuits I grew up on decades ago. Now, breakfast looks more like miso soup and pickled vegetables or some sort of little salad.
I absolutely loved reading this! I grew up eating the typical southern Black American breakfast while my grandmother was alive. When she passed, it was mainly cereal or oatmeal or something as my mom didn’t enjoy cooking the way Grandma did (she still doesn’t lol).
But I’ve always been fascinated by the food in different places. I could never understand how we could go on vacation to some place new and only eat at the same restaurants we have where we came from. Give me the local stuff! My family clowns me for eating miso soup for breakfast but I love it. And I love that as an adult, I can expose my kids to different foods and teach them about other cultures.
I love this. I’m mixed, and pretty much grew up eating random mixes of the standard American diet with Spanish and black influences. But always struggled with breakfast. In the past few years I’ve googled and surfed for other breakfast options and hated how 80% of YouTube tutorials were eggs, overnight oats, and avocado toast. I kept (and keep) thinking on how these cannot be the same dishes people have really eaten for years. I even searched for “morning soup”, and struggled to find many recipes. I did find most cultures had a version of porridge, like Koreans have Dakjuk. I tried to make it (recipe from TikTok) but still need to get the flavors right. But you’ve inspired me to keep searching and continue to leave the SAD diet. There’s better, more flavorful and healthier experiences to have for breakfast out there.
Yes! Please keep searching! And diets even across the world have become standardized to accommodate capitalism. I also struggled to find things that weren’t egg and bread based in other cultures.
So instead I have decided to make meals that seemed nutrient dense and light enough for dinner. Chicken tortilla soup, fish soup, beans etc. Drawing inspo from there!
I make it a point when I travel internationally or in other dense communities in nyc to learn where and what locals are eating for breakfast. Like going to a Yemeni cafe instead of the American cafe. Please let me know what inspiration you find!
I ditched the country breakfast of grits, eggs, some sort of pork, and biscuits I grew up on decades ago. Now, breakfast looks more like miso soup and pickled vegetables or some sort of little salad.
Been trying to unlearn this lately!
I absolutely loved reading this! I grew up eating the typical southern Black American breakfast while my grandmother was alive. When she passed, it was mainly cereal or oatmeal or something as my mom didn’t enjoy cooking the way Grandma did (she still doesn’t lol).
But I’ve always been fascinated by the food in different places. I could never understand how we could go on vacation to some place new and only eat at the same restaurants we have where we came from. Give me the local stuff! My family clowns me for eating miso soup for breakfast but I love it. And I love that as an adult, I can expose my kids to different foods and teach them about other cultures.