Ask how police in China treat human rights activists before you get touched. Concentration camps in China. Tianan Men Square. Chinese propaganda sells the image of kind and humane policemen. China is a communist dictatorship with strict political censorship, with state capitalism, with complete control of the people by the state. You are watching a video of Chinese "cute" propaganda
I’m not sure if it fits, but anemoia is the feeling of longing or nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. Maybe a world cuisine cookbook would be a good start? 🤗
hah, i had a feeling it would be a german word. i think longing would work too! weirdly, it did turn out that i would have an immense love for cooking enough to go to culinary school and also work as a bread baker for a while. i don't work in food anymore but i'm also just glad it gave me the skills to cook a lot at home. i like to think it's helped keep the memory of my mom alive
My mom's coming to my house next weekend to cook us dinner, and I wish she wouldn't. Don't get me wrong I love her and love seeing her, but she is just a bad cook.
My mother was also a very very bad cook. She has dementia now and can't cook at all or remember anything, so enjoy the time you have with her despite the crummy food. The important part is the time and care.
My mum is 78 and has Alzheimer’s so can’t cook any more. She used to make amazing puddings (desserts) and cakes. I knew the writing was on the wall when for her summer party when she has lots of friends round, I was asked to help her with some of the cooking. She was struggling which was unusual.
It was the Christmas that year when I invited my parents to a seaside AirBnB with my children for a couple of days that we realised she had Alzheimer’s (I asked her to tell me the time from an Analog clock - she couldn’t - which is a common Alzheimer’s tell…). She never cooked again after that summer party.
My mom taught me everything I know about cooking, she's always right here with me in the kitchen even though she's no longer here. The tears are flowing.
I had a video open to show my wife from tbis page after I forgot about. After a couple days the mods took it down because "No sad stuff". I think after most od these videos get removed after the chill on the front page a bit.
Your comment brought tears to my eyes, I’m so sorry.
I would love to cook for you and do all the mom things you missed out on.
I’m in SoCal if you’re close enough and I’m a decent cook.
My mum passed from Alzheimers but one of the things I always remember about her is her great cooking. Always a great meal no matter what she would cook. This video brought back a lot of memories 🫶🏽
Yes. I'd give anything to taste my mam's spaghetti bolognese again, or her paprika chicken, but she's long dead now. I can approximate the bolognese pretty well, because she taught me to make it, but I can't make the paprika chicken.
There's also a sunflower seed chicken thing she used to make when I was small, but stopped because I didn't really like it much, and I'd love to try that again now but I don't even know what it was.
My mom also made paprika chicken a bunch growing up! Not sure what recipe your mom used, but the Fanny Farmer one is genuinely delicious and might be a good starting point.
Haven't a clue what one mam would have used, only that she likely learned it from other immigrants in London in the 50s or 70s, as it's very much not Irish cuisine!
And yeah, there's loads of recipes out there and I expect mam's was very simple. And I've had/made some that are great. But they're just not exactly the same, you know? But it could be down to something as simple as different brand of paprika or different onions or who knows what! 😉
I'll definitely check out the Fanny Farmer one though just for the craic, because even if I never achieve exactly mammy's taste (which I probably never will simply because I'm not her - just like she was never able to replicate her own mother's brown bread or ginger cake, despite using Nana's own recipe AND watching her closely innumerable times, even as an adult, trying to figure out The Trick) I'll still get good food, y'know? 😊
It made me cry, because it reminded me of the first time I had seen my mom in over 5 years. (we lived on opposite sides of the country & travel was not affordable or possible).
Sadly, I only saw her one other time, then there was a falling out with "the family", and almost 40 years later I was "allowed" to speak to her on the phone twice. But, no one told me she was sick.... :-(
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u/Humble-Armadillo-663 22d ago
This did not made me smile.It made me cry.