Name: What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T20:21:15.000Z
Duration: 14 min 41 s

Last year, I was living with this indigenous family in India.

舊年我住喺一個印度本地人屋企

and at the sight of me, he quickly hid his curry behind his back.

It took a lot of persuasion to get him to show me what he was eating.

一見到我，就將佢嘅咖喱收喺背後

說服咗佢好耐先佢畀我睇佢食緊咩

a traditional delicacy with the Madia indigenous people.

然後我見到個男仔難以置信嘅眼神

How could an urban, educated woman like the same food as him?

Later, I broached the subject with his father,

and it turned out to be a mighty touchy affair.

後來，我同佢爸爸討論呢個話題

"Oh, only this son of mine likes to eat it.

「哦。得呢個仔鍾意食蛾嘅幼蟲，

"Have you been told that your food is bad,

「係咪有人同你講過你啲食物唔好

This was one of the many, many times in my work with indigenous people in India

呢次只係我同無數印度當地人做嘢時

the food that has been eaten for generations,

見證到佢哋以食物為恥嘅其中一次

And this shame is not limited to out-of-the-way, icky foods

而且呢種羞恥感唔單止係講 一啲冷門、嘔心嘅食物

basically, anything that is foraged rather than cultivated.

In indigenous India, this shame is omnipresent.

基本上就係所有野生 而唔係農民種植嘅食物

One upper-caste vegetarian schoolmaster gets appointed in a school,

呢種以食物為恥嘅現象 喺印度當地普遍存在

within weeks, children are telling their parents it's yucky to eat crabs

任何因素都可能引起呢種羞恥感

指派上流社會嘅素食校長去一間學校

A government nutrition program serves fluffy white rice,

啲學生唔洗幾個星期， 就同父母講食蟹好核突呀

now no one wants to eat red rice or millets.

A nonprofit reaches this village with an ideal diet chart for pregnant women.

就令到宜家冇人想食紅米或者小米

All the expectant mothers are feeling sad

一個非貿利組織嚟到呢個小鎮 為孕婦能提供理想嘅膳食搭配

that they cannot afford apples and grapes.

And people just kind of forget the fruits

因為佢哋買唔起蘋果同法式薄餅

are literally shouting it down at the indigenous people

I'm wondering if you all have ever considered

whether your communities would have a similar history around food.

If you were to talk to your 90-year-old grandmother,

would she talk about foods that you have never seen or heard of?

你社交圈子嘅人有冇類似嘅經歷

Are you aware how much of your community's food

佢會唔會講起啲 你從未見過或聽過嘅食物

你有冇發現有幾多你哋食開嘅食物

that the South African food economy is now entirely based on imported foods.

while the local sorghum, millets, bulbs and tubers are all gone.

南非宜家嘅食物經濟鏈 完全依靠進口食物

while people eat potatoes and onions, cabbages and carrots.

然而本土嘅高粱，小米， 球莖同塊莖類食物都消失哂

當大家食緊薯仔、洋葱、 椰菜同紅蘿蔔嘅時候

And we have totally forgotten foods like huge varieties of tubers,

而且我哋完全唔記得一啲食物 例如各式各樣嘅塊莖類

all of which used to be available right within our surroundings.

Why are our modern food baskets so narrow?

We could talk about the complex political economic and ecological reasons,

but I am here to talk about this more human phenomenon of shame,

我哋可以講吓 複雜嘅政治經濟同生態原因

at which food actually disappears off your plate.

但我今日想講嘅係 呢種令人覺得羞恥嘅現象

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