Where did you live and what did you eat growing up?
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Anonymous
Your family and restaurant look great and fascinating, and I love Peri-Peri. I ate from Nando's in South Africa before it ever opened in Maryland! I might stop by, I drive from Canada to Maryland often, but don't take the Pittsburg route. Thank you for linking it here. |
Anonymous
? I grew up in CA in the 70s/80s. I distinctly recall having fresh fruit year round. I grew up in Socal, LA County. Maybe our food distribution there was better? I also grew up eating a lot of seafood, particularly fish. |
Anonymous
You have a beautiful family and your food looks incredible! |
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Grew up in Soviet Union. We ate lots of pork, ground beef, potatoes, eggs, black bread, root vegetables, cabbage, stews, milk, herring.
Most common was boiled potatoes with meat and gravy. I think we took Hungarian goulash soup and made it into gravy+potatoes thing instead. We also ate a lot of soups as they were easy to make and kept us warm. Milk, meat, eggs,vegetables were all local and fresh. Nobody had time to make food into art form. I thought the food was great. I love warm food a lot more than cold.We ate fast and got back to doing things we really wanted to do. I love it that nobody seemed to be allergic to anything as the choices were narrow and all kids finished their food. Sugary things were not for every day unless lunch time at school. I'm not a picky eater and it was not a thing to play with food or go on and on how one doesn't like something. It was shocking to see this throwing pies around in American movies and shows. I never starved, so it's not that. Playing and wasting food (and other things) is just not a thing to do. |
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I grew up in Vancouver, Canada. At home, we always ate homemade meals Cantonese or Indian food that my mom (Indian) and dad (Chinese) made. Rarely ate out with my mom. She loves cooking and is a fantastic cook.
When out with my friends or my dad, we'd always opt for Pho, Cantonese or Japanese. Dim Sum, Hot Pot, Seafood. Occasionally, Thai or Korean. We didn't really eat fast food, or Americanized foods. There are endless options for authentic food where I grew up. |
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I’m from Eastern PA, Pennsylvania Dutch, and ate a lot of overcooked, bland food growing up. My mother believes salt and pepper are the only spices needed in cooking and is not interested in trying any others. I vividly recall the fish we ate on Fridays — a thin white filet baked at 375 for 1 hour. On the other hand, we had steak that was still cold inside — my father wanted to “see the blood run down his fork”.
At the same time, we also had lots of fresh fruit in the summer and good fresh tomatoes, onions, beans from the farmer who came around selling things from the back of his truck. Our neighbors had a sour cherry tree in their yard and we’d pick cherries for my mom to make a pie— using a store bought crust, but still great. Got apples from another yard and mom would make apple crisp. I eat a vastly more diverse set of foods as an adult, but I still have very good memories of what I ate as a kid. Also, there were lots of Eastern European immigrants in my area and I loved eating pierogies, halupki, kiffels, goulash, and other foods that were not part of my family cooking but available from neighbors, church festivals, etc. |
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New poster, I grew up in SLO county, too! |
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Grew up in the Baltimore suburbs, born in '79. Typical dinners were pork chops, lamb chops, steak, roast chicken, served with potatoes or rice, with peas or green beans and corn. Salad nightly. Occasionally we had spaghetti with meatballs. Meatloaf also made regular appearances. Once every other month we'd have sauerkraut as a side to the protein, usually pork. Once a week was fish, usually trout, sometimes swordfish. In summers we'd have sliced tomatoes and fresh green beans, crabcakes and steamed shrimp. Every now and then my mother would make an effort and serve steamed broccoli or cauliflower but they typically faded from the menu before she made an effort again. She was considered a good cook.
Lunches were usually cold cuts or tuna fish or peanut butter/jelly. Very typical. I remember food becoming more "interesting" in the mid 1990s? Pastas other than spaghetti started becoming more common. Salmon started making an appearance. Asparagus started appearing regularly. |
Anonymous
This sounds exactly like SW Michigan where I grew up. We also had Godfather's Pizza, Chi Chi's (where we all ordered chimichangas and fried ice cream) and Olga's at the mall (that place was soooo good). |
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I grew up in West Germany. Breakfast and dinner was bread with things like salami, ham, cheese, cucumber, tomatoes and olives etc.
Lunch was a warm meal with a salad. We ate lots of fish, some meat, many local vegetables and rice, potatoes, or Spätzle. |
Anonymous
Food Network was building off of Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, and later Martha Stewart. It’s important to note the true origins of food on TV. Countless chefs cite Julia as their inspiration, even because they were a kid and their mom watched it before Sesame Street came on. Talk shows like Oprah and Good Morning America having chefs come on and do cooking demonstrations also paved the way for Rachael Ray. I like Food Network, but there’s a lot of influence that let up to Food Network. |
Anonymous
Thank you, PP, for bringing up shrimp newburg. That brought back some good memories. |
Anonymous
NP. This looks amazing, Chef! I am jealous of your customers. You had me at peach cobbler pies. |
Anonymous
What is this staggeringly stupid ignorance? The white kid who grew up in an Italian American family in Brooklyn ate differently from a white kid who grew up on a farm in Iowa who also ate differently from a Jewish kid who grew up outside Baltimore... Kid, I'm old enough to remember life before Food Network. Sheesh, the ignorant stupidity of the woke. |
Anonymous
Funny I grew up in the suburbs in CA and I remember Olga's bread. |