Apparently, very soon, AI will help us learn just about anything we fancy. Cure cancer and unlock world peace. So late at night I typed into ChatGPT, “How can we rid the world of bad butter chicken?” Sadly, he? she? had no good ideas. But I do!
I thoroughly enjoyed your article and found myself nodding along with your sentiments.
Coincidentally, I recently wrote a piece titled "Run, Butter Chicken, Run! How One Dish Took Over the World While the Rest of Indian Cuisine Watched in Silence", exploring the topic from a different angle, hope it earns its place in the annals of written work on this ever-evolving butter chicken discourse. (https://pixelsandparagraphs.substack.com/p/run-butter-chicken-run)
While technological AI may not be the answer to bad butter chicken, I’d argue that another kind of AI—Asians and Indians—just might be. In my piece, I reflect on how we may have avoided this butter chicken tornado if we, as Asians and Indians, had done a better job of introducing our non-Indian friends to the rich culinary legacies of our mothers, grandmothers, and aunts.
So thank you for taking on this task and sharing the rich heritage through your recipes.
That Butter Chicken video is so bad! Maybe try a re-make starring the lovely Rushad?
As for the AI , we don't need it when it comes to food - except - maybe you are right, to answer the desperate eleventh hour conundrum of what is for dinner or maybe "Quick! What to do with this piece of chicken?" Hope I don't have to stoop so low if the pantry is well-stocked by "Dolly Mumma". Absolutely no need to resort to technology at all.
Hi Perzen - Not so engaged by the AI side of things. I am far more interested in just hearing about your own personal experiences with preparing the food you love, for people you love, and what it means to your inner life to do so. The whole consideration of how we choke diversity out of our life by getting into a rut of habit seems to be extremely relevant to food preparation. I would love to hear more about food as a practice and metaphor for life, how we cook and eat, and what we eat, being reflective of how we’re living.
Rick, I wrote this while doing a course on writing with AI so it felt like a relevant piece to write. Appreciate the callout that it's not my usual style :)
I feel there's two types of cooking we do in our lives. The everyday, relentless, cooking to keep the family fed cooking and the slow, meditative, exploring food cooking. Personally, I find the first one energy-sapping and annoying and maybe, AI can help with the god awful question that is "Mum, what's for dinner tonight".
Well that all makes perfect sense. How you came to write this in the first place, and second, that particular and potential utility of AI in meeting the "god awful question." Maybe you should change the name of your publication to "Mum, what's for dinner tonight?" Solving that problem ought to be worth about a billion subscribers. : )
Hi Perzen,
I thoroughly enjoyed your article and found myself nodding along with your sentiments.
Coincidentally, I recently wrote a piece titled "Run, Butter Chicken, Run! How One Dish Took Over the World While the Rest of Indian Cuisine Watched in Silence", exploring the topic from a different angle, hope it earns its place in the annals of written work on this ever-evolving butter chicken discourse. (https://pixelsandparagraphs.substack.com/p/run-butter-chicken-run)
While technological AI may not be the answer to bad butter chicken, I’d argue that another kind of AI—Asians and Indians—just might be. In my piece, I reflect on how we may have avoided this butter chicken tornado if we, as Asians and Indians, had done a better job of introducing our non-Indian friends to the rich culinary legacies of our mothers, grandmothers, and aunts.
So thank you for taking on this task and sharing the rich heritage through your recipes.
Hi Perzen
That Butter Chicken video is so bad! Maybe try a re-make starring the lovely Rushad?
As for the AI , we don't need it when it comes to food - except - maybe you are right, to answer the desperate eleventh hour conundrum of what is for dinner or maybe "Quick! What to do with this piece of chicken?" Hope I don't have to stoop so low if the pantry is well-stocked by "Dolly Mumma". Absolutely no need to resort to technology at all.
Hi Perzen - Not so engaged by the AI side of things. I am far more interested in just hearing about your own personal experiences with preparing the food you love, for people you love, and what it means to your inner life to do so. The whole consideration of how we choke diversity out of our life by getting into a rut of habit seems to be extremely relevant to food preparation. I would love to hear more about food as a practice and metaphor for life, how we cook and eat, and what we eat, being reflective of how we’re living.
Rick, I wrote this while doing a course on writing with AI so it felt like a relevant piece to write. Appreciate the callout that it's not my usual style :)
I feel there's two types of cooking we do in our lives. The everyday, relentless, cooking to keep the family fed cooking and the slow, meditative, exploring food cooking. Personally, I find the first one energy-sapping and annoying and maybe, AI can help with the god awful question that is "Mum, what's for dinner tonight".
Well that all makes perfect sense. How you came to write this in the first place, and second, that particular and potential utility of AI in meeting the "god awful question." Maybe you should change the name of your publication to "Mum, what's for dinner tonight?" Solving that problem ought to be worth about a billion subscribers. : )