The desire for food from home can go deeper than just craving certain tastes. Food is an important piece how we define culture, and therefore a piece of how we see ourselves as people. There is a profound link between food and identity.
When you're at home in your own culture, that culture may not feel like an incredibly important piece of your identity, because it's shared with everyone around you. Away from home, however, the things that still make you unique, like nationality or religion, can take on an importance in your self-definition that they never had before.
As culture takes a greater role in how you see yourself, the foods and food rituals that define it come along for the ride. You may cling to food as an anchor for who you are and where you’re from.
So, when I feel homesick, I seek comfort through familiar foods that recall happy memories from childhood. That’s why they’re called "comfort foods" – they’re quite literally associated in our brain with happy and comforting emotions...
One last tip, before your kids go off to college, teach them how to cook their favorite homemade dish. They'll be cooking more often than they think!
Sunntigs-Zopf mit Honig
Potato soup with Garlic bread
Nothing beats a true Swiss salad with homemade bread
Moité-moité cheese fondue... as Swiss as it gets!
Silserli mit Nüsslisalat
Chässchnitte
Carac filled with chocolate
Fasnachtschüechli or Chiacchiere di Carnevale
Heissi Schoggi
"Vermicelles" made of chestnut purée
Rivella und Ovi Stengel
Ramseier Öpfelsaft
Spot the Aromat!
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