🇬🇧 Expanding food repertoire

The process of discovering your identity can be long and, at times, a little scary, but it is fantastic. Getting to know yourself is a process that requires an effort to expand our repertoire instead of assuming that the repertoire we have when living with our family is enough. Today the example comes from my eating habits and how they changed over time. It's about how I expanded my food repertoire. The same process can be applied to other areas of life.

As a child I didn't usually eat vegetables. My lunch and dinner consisted of rice, beans, potatoes and meat. Sometimes I ate cauliflower. The food, both at my parents' house while they were married, and at my maternal grandmother's house, where I lived most of my childhood and adolescence, was ugly and bad. I have cared about beauty since childhood, so ugly food is not something that whets my appetite. As, besides being ugly, the flavour didn't help me like it, I ate it just so I wouldn't die of hunger. At my paternal grandmother's house the food was always very good and my grandma always made me feel comfortable, but there was no habit of consuming a lot of vegetables.

As a teenager, after my parents divorced, I started going to the farm less (my paternal grandmother's house) and decided to make desserts to lessen the suffering of only having the option of bad food.

But life started to get interesting from a food point of view only when I left my hometown. In Uberlândia, I learned to eat vegetables because I went to a Chinese restaurant close to the apartment where I lived. It was a buffet, so I could serve a little bit of whatever looked good. I started to really like yakisoba (and I started eating more too 😁). They used so much soy sauce that you couldn't distinguish the flavours of anything. Nowadays I prefer more moderate doses of soy sauce in yakisoba, as that was just the first step in getting used to vegetables.

Then I had the opportunity to try many things, including haute cuisine from renowned and very creative chefs. Haute cuisine enchants me because, unlike the Chinese food at that restaurant in Uberlândia, it is possible to identify different flavours, colours and textures in the same dish, and all of this has been carefully harmonised. This is seductive.

Expanding your repertoire and getting to know yourself means allowing yourself to experience what you have never experienced before, seeking to discover who you are beneath the shell of family and social influences. Of course this doesn't mean trying anything... you don't need to throw yourself off a cliff to see what it's like.

Expanding your repertoire is good because closed-minded people are generally unpleasant, immature and when they have children they cause immense trauma to them because they tend to use repression.

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