Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place.
It will be something different every week, but it will always be about something worth seeing, hearing or watching, or a place worth visiting or a food worth tasting.
This week, a really interesting long read about the culture of food sharing in Indonesia by Rahel Stephanie for Foodism.
I’ve come to realise that communal eating is not just about the food itself, but about what it facilitates: a momentary collapse of stiff social formality, a warm dissolution of distance. Sharing food should be disarming. There’s a kind of soft trust involved when someone you’ve only just gotten to know – a friend of a friend, perhaps – reaches across the table for that spoonful of sambal or helps themselves to a shared dish without hesitation. It echoes the inherent ease of eating among friends or family back home. It shifts something fundamental in the room.
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