Hey y’all, TrashcanOfIdeology formally introducing myself.

I picked the username right after watching the pervert’s guide to ideology and before zizek started having a string of bad to worse, to awful, takes.

I’ve been around since the time the subreddit got banned, and this community has really been amazing in so many ways. For example, I don’t think I would’ve had the information, support, and felt as confident to realize I am/come out as nb had it not been for y’all. So, thanks!

A little bit about me:

  • From the Global South, immigrated to an imperial core nation for a variety of reasons.
  • I’m very, very into food. Almost obsessively so. Not only the act of cooking itself or the growing/preparation of ingredients (i love those, too), but the social, ecological, environmental, and philosophical questions around food, taste, and gastronomic culture and justice. I worked in professional kitchens on and off for several years, did a masters on food and anthropology, and since covid began I have been lucky to make a modest living as a food scholar and supporting food activists. I’ll talk your ear off about any of that kind of stuff, so if y’all wanna talk food i’m your person.
  • I love dogs, and will likely adopt a lil’ puppy sometime soon. As soon as they come to my place, i’ll introduce them to you :)

Great to make your acquaintance deng-cowboy

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Oh, so many to choose from. My favorite food movie is “Babette’s Feast”. It has so much food for thought (hah, get it), about the social and emotional role that making, eating, and critiquing (as in, being critical and mindful about the aesthetic experience of eating, not being a snobby ass) food has.

      Special mentions to “Como agua para chocolate”, “Big Night”, and I really loved “The Menu”, for its very real, and scathing critique of the world of haute cuisine, and the people who dine in those kinds of spaces. “Ratatouille” is a beautiful love letter to the purest way of the love for food.

      Lately i’ve been obsessed with the TV show “The Bear”, too. It’s a very real representation of work in a kitchen, and how every single person working in foodservice is broken somehow, but we find some kind of masochistic solace that’s hard to find somewhere else.

      On the topic of documentaries, i watched “Natural Resistance” a few years ago, for the first time, and I rewatch it every now and then. If you’re at all curious about wines, and specially about the kind of winemaker who’s not some aristocratic douchebag making 2000 dollar a bottle, boring-ass, dead wine you should give it a try.