{"id":4234,"date":"2024-02-12T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/food-should-be-tasty-and-it-doesnt-have-to-come-in-a-bowl-could-someone-tell-my-lovely-american-hosts\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T11:00:49","slug":"food-should-be-tasty-and-it-doesnt-have-to-come-in-a-bowl-could-someone-tell-my-lovely-american-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/food-should-be-tasty-and-it-doesnt-have-to-come-in-a-bowl-could-someone-tell-my-lovely-american-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Food should be tasty, and it doesn\u2019t have to come in a bowl. Could someone tell my lovely American hosts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had some amazing experiences in Boston. But I want fun from my holiday meals, not joyless refuelling<\/p>\n<p>I almost never leave Europe, so spending a month in Boston is expanding my provincial horizons and blowing my tiny mind. Wild turkeys (huge!) wander the streets, there are rodeo bouts on TV and everyone drinks iced coffee even though it\u2019s absolutely Baltic. I feel more foreign here than in places I\u2019ve visited where I didn\u2019t speak the language, and I keep getting things wrong. I think I rode the bus illegally yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, though, I\u2019m baffled by bowls. In this corner of the world full of twentysomething Stem graduates wearing Patagonia and Lululemon activewear, with earning potential many multiples of mine, meals seem almost all bowl-based, composed of grain, protein, greens and some kind of sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? 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But I want fun from my holiday meals, not joyless refuelling I almost never leave Europe, so spending a month in Boston is expanding my provincial horizons and blowing my tiny mind. Wild turkeys (huge!) wander the streets, there are rodeo bouts on TV and everyone drinks iced &#8230; <a title=\"Food should be tasty, and it doesn\u2019t have to come in a bowl. Could someone tell my lovely American hosts?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/food-should-be-tasty-and-it-doesnt-have-to-come-in-a-bowl-could-someone-tell-my-lovely-american-hosts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Food should be tasty, and it doesn\u2019t have to come in a bowl. 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