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Our food isn’t artisanal, it’s AI, revisiting tired takes, and Trompo Bot is in the lexicon

Deepa Shridhar

Apr 01, 2024

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Reference articles:

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/oscar-mayer-vegan-hot-dogs

https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/trompo-robot/

Curry is a four letter word

Deepa Shridhar

December 22, 2021

I too remember a couple years ago when I would smugly claim that there is no such thing as, “curry.” And then I remembered I’m Tamil. Curry aka “Kari, or Kare” is Tamilian in origin. “Curry” is the bastardization of “Kari” a Tamilian word for sauce, or thick gravy usually served with rice. It became, for foreign invaders somewhere in the late 1600’s, a catch-all for Indian spiced sauces and stews. Some centuries later, it helped market Desi immigrant ingenuity in other countries when needing to explain away the complexities of our cuisine, you could simply add “curry” to the end of the dish and give it a selling chance.

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