Once upon a time human beings were stuck eating the same foods all the time. In the same place eating the same foods day after day they were limited to the variety of foods in their immediate surroundings. Why? There were no trucks to import bananas from the tropics, and farmers could not drive their produce to farmer’s markets hours away for the consumers’ convenience. Whatever crops grew under cultivation or in the wild were eaten and over time these became staple flavors in what we today recognize as “traditional” foods. Of course now we have the ability to import any ingredient we wish in order to create dishes that use flavors from across the world. This means that in a city such as San Francisco, California, a hungry patron can get a meal with ethnic roots originating from pretty much any country in the world.
Balkan food? Not a problem.
Is it Indonesian food you crave? On Post Street.
Mongolian barbeque? It’s what’s for dinner.
This website is maintained by a nutritional anthropologist living is San Francisco. It is for culturally inclined foodies everywhere to enjoy, and it’s the first of its kind: a restaurant review website devoted to focusing on the cultural foundation behind ethnic restaurants.