What foods did your ancestors love? | Aparna Pallavi
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🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Around the world, Indigenous food cultures vanish because of industrialized agriculture and a shifting, Western-influenced concept of the ideal diet. Food researcher Aparna Pallavi explores why once-essential culinary traditions disappear from people's lives and memories almost without notice -- and serves up a subtle solution to revitalize our connection to the foods we eat.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Elise Hugh and you're listening to TED Talks Daily. |
| 0:13.0 | In today's talk journalist and researcher, a Parnapollaby helps us reframe what we put on our plates. |
| 0:20.0 | She explains how a more Western-centric definition of what's delicious food creates shame |
| 0:26.2 | around indigenous foods and how that can damage our health, ecology, and cultural identities. |
| 0:34.0 | Let's fix this problem. |
| 0:35.0 | Aparna shares how. |
| 0:37.0 | Take a listen to this talk from TEDX Cape Town Women 2018. |
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| 1:01.7 | Last year I was living with this indigenous family in India. |
| 1:08.0 | One afternoon, the young son was eating and at the sight of me he quickly hid his curry behind his back. |
| 1:17.0 | It took a lot of persuasion to get him to show me what he was eating. |
| 1:22.0 | It turned out to be Moss Larvae, a traditional |
| 1:27.4 | delicacy with the Mādia indigenous people. I cried, oh my God you're eating these I hope there's a little left for me I saw |
| 1:38.1 | disbelief in the boy's eyes you eat? I love these I replied I could see he did not trust me one bit how could an urban educated woman like the same food as him? Later, I approached |
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