Is it bourgeois to like ‘good food?’ I went looking for answers
Life and style | The Guardian
I grew up working class and often ask myself: does what we eat define us? In West Virginia, a supper club is asking the same question
Amy Dawson grew up ashamed of the family ham.
It was pink and huge – close to 40lb – and sat on the kitchen counter, wrapped in newspaper throughout the winter. The ham had a hardened outside layer of dehydrated fat, which Dawson’s mom would cut into with a butcher’s knife, revealing a rich, ruby red inside. She would soak the meat she had sliced off and fry it up the next day for dinner, repeating those steps over the rest of the season.
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