by Diana
Lots of things have happened since my last post about four years ago, including loosing the web’s domain to a family-owned lunch spot in Texas! We wish them good luck though and welcome our new British identity as theteaspoon.co.uk
The Teaspoon began in 2012 as a platform to celebrate our
family’s ever-changing migratory identity, and to narrate multiple stories
shared with homemade flavours and cuisine. In 2014 the blog was somehow used to
protest about the socio-political situation back home in Venezuela. I would
have loved to relaunch with a hopeful and comic post of a tasty recipe but I
can’t do that knowing that the country’s economy has crashed, the
hyperinflation is expected to reach one million per cent by the end of 2018,
that crime continues fragmenting families, that Venezuela is the focus of an
unprecedented Latin-American exodus about to reach humanitarian crisis levels
and that everyone that’s left in the country is starving. It’s estimated that
64% of Venezuelans have lost 11kg (about 1.7st) of body weight last year,
including my dad, due to the crisis. It’s not a secret that families are
stretching their supplies and skipping meals in order to survive.
I couldn’t think of any recipes to
post here which ingredients could be currently accessible for the average
Venezuelan household. Food shortages mixed with hyperinflation make it
impossible for people to cook themselves a treat. I am not hoping the empty set
below will make a difference or have an impact but it’s just a coping mechanism
I am using to transform the sadness and frustration into something more
meaningful that helps promote awareness.
The Teaspoon will continue embracing
multiculturalism in the kitchen, whilst tracing back our ancestor’s journeys in
time and combine them with our own, but not today.
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