Anonymous #2 1w

I never said they didn’t. I said I don’t have any European roots. That being said many Sephardic Jews have a heavy Mediterranean influence in their unique food culture.

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Anonymous OP 1w

Yes for sure. Although Med culture is also European. Like Italy, Spain, Greece all meds.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Yeah, Mediterranean food is a multi national multi continental reference to food cultures of the places around the Mediterranean Sea. Your point being?

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Anonymous OP 1w

That was my point. Med culture is also European.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Okay but you’re missing OPs two separate points. 1. Sephardi and Mizrahi food are often overlooked. 2. THEY (as in OP themselves) have no European roots.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Also, Mediterranean food is not JUST European. It’s a combination of southern Europe, North Africa, and SW Asia. The relevant point being, that too many people view Jewish culture in a way that erases the non-Euro influences.

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Anonymous #2 1w

you’re annoying ngl.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Yeah, Mediterranean food is an over encompassing term. The same as saying Asian food, but you aren’t going to say the culture that makes saag paneer is the same as the culture that makes pad Thai. A Sephardic Jew from Spain is going to have different food culture than an Ashkenazi Jew from Germany. Also that Sephardic Jew from Spain will probably have a unique food culture from regular Spanish food culture.

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Anonymous #5 23h

Pretty sure you missed the point of my post. My family cooks cous cous, tagine, makes hummus. They have for generations yet people are will say we stole it or actively try to erase our ties to that food culture. Also there are many foods with religious symbolism for Islam and Christianity and all the other religions. We cook some foods directly prepared around the traditions of Shabbat like tbit or jachnun.

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