I feel like reverse engineering substitutes and basic concepts out of doing a lot of recipes sucks ass. How do you do this better, preferrably without getting someone from that region to teach you because where I live is not that kind of melting pot

  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netBanned
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    2 months ago

    I feel like reverse engineering substitutes and basic concepts out of doing a lot of recipes sucks ass.

    I sadly don’t really think there’s any other way of doing it. I don’t really know of any books or YouTube channels that actually tell you what the cuisine of a place is like, they all just do individual recipes and don’t tell you what the people in a specific culture actually eat on a day-by-day basis what their most basic recipes are and the like