spouse cooking food from your heritage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Exactly what is the problem OP? If you grew up here, I doubt even your cooking is like real thing back home.

Well that's rude.

Not to mention...if OP grew up here then her back home is....wait for it...HERE!

[Anonymous]

A little bit different, but I am Indian and my non-Indian MIL frequently tries to make Indian food when DH and I visit but she has a tendency to alter recipes to her taste and although they may taste good to her (and that's great for her, she should eat what she likes), they taste really "off" to me - like too much of one spice and not enough of another or she'll cut out or substitute a key ingredient. If that's what you're talking about, OP, I understand your pain. But if my husband learned how to cook authentic Indian food, I'd be all over it!

[Anonymous]

You think you are a fetish?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone figured out OP's manufactured problem yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes my husband is a very good cook and makes fantastic versions of my people’s food (Chinese). I also leave his ethnic food to him (Ashkenazi Jewish food).

I understood Judaism to be a religion, not ethnicity

Being Jewish is both an ethnicity and a religion. You can define yourself as an ashkenazi Jew (from Eastern Europe) or a Sephardic Jew (North Africa) and actually also declare yourself atheist...

[Anonymous]

I'm amazed by how many PPs have spouses or in-laws who try to cook food from the PPs' cultures! I would think they'd be too self-conscious to attempt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed by how many PPs have spouses or in-laws who try to cook food from the PPs' cultures! I would think they'd be too self-conscious to attempt it.

Not me! But my DH's food culture is Minnesota, so it's because I don't want to, not because I'm worried that I'm incapable.

I'd think it would be fun, though. With the availability of ingredients and foodie/cooking culture these days, a devoted spouse wanting to "explore" a spouse's heritage can probably make some pretty impressive meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone figured out OP's manufactured problem yet?

+1

How many people can only cook a few American dishes? Is that weird?

My DH tried to make me my culture's comfort food once when I was not feeling well. It was not good, but I sooo appreciated it.

If I only made my culture's dish, and DH wanted something different, he'd cook it himsef. Vice versa.

Maybe the spouse only knows how to cook that particular type of cuisine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone figured out OP's manufactured problem yet?

Yes! It is OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly what is the problem OP? If you grew up here, I doubt even your cooking is like real thing back home.

Well that's rude.

Not to mention...if OP grew up here then her back home is....wait for it...HERE!

Well that's dumb. If this is her home, she wouldn't be asking the question to begin with.

[Anonymous]

BF cooks his (Cajun/creole), I cook mine (coastal southern). We occasionally cross into each other’s territory, but he can’t make biscuits like I do and I can’t make a jambalaya like he can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly what is the problem OP? If you grew up here, I doubt even your cooking is like real thing back home.

Well that's rude.

Not to mention...if OP grew up here then her back home is....wait for it...HERE!

Well that's dumb. If this is her home, she wouldn't be asking the question to begin with.

OP (assuming it is the wife and not the husband) is trying to be clever by changing some random things up to sniff out themselves. It’s like Tweety and Sylvester.

[Anonymous]

My DH does. He actually makes the food better than most from my culture

[Anonymous]

Cultural appropriation within marriage. How dare he!

[Anonymous]

What? No. That's a ridiculous complaint. My DH is Indian. i cook Indian sometimes.

Maybe OP is trolling.