Mongolian diet

(JT Newell) #1

What was the Pre-industrual Mongolian diet like? How can I incorporate it into my life?

I Know it had a lot of meat, I just want to know how to apply it to my life.

(bulkbiker) #2

Not sure youā€™ll be able to get much in the supermarket thoughā€¦

#3

Pre-industrial Mongolian diet was also different than modern Mongolian diet - as there has been a dedicated effort on the part of various interests to ā€˜civilizeā€™ nomadic peoples in order to control them, extract their labor, and seize their lands. (Further south down in the Botswana Africa region, the oldest nomadic people on earth - the Kalahari Kung San/Bushmen - have been largely displaced and are suffering immensely from forced displacement by greedy industrialists aiming to mine for diamonds and destroy land for ā€œdevelopmentā€ purposes).

The encroachment of industrial trade and the usual colonizing incursions of the sugar/soda & alcohol & processed food industries along with english language oriented schools and industry recruitment have been having their effects on the Mongolian way of life.

The survival of pre-industrial peoples is so very very closely tied to maintaining their heritage and nomadic rights - as well as resisting the replacement of the hearthfire with the TV (as so well written of by professor Jerry Mander in the book ā€œIn The Absence Of The Sacred: Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nationsā€).

For more on Mongolian culture and survival, highly recommend the 1991 film ā€œUrgaā€ by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It was released in North America as ā€œClose to Edenā€ - it has food traditions in it, basically hunting and eating the fresh kill, plus brothy soup with leftovers.

(Sarah Bruhn) #4

What a wonderful question, I donā€™t know (iā€™ll be following to find out more) except that a long time ago I was told they put butter in their tea (hey bullet proof tea!) so i looked it up and found this recipe.

(Bunny) #5

As soon as modernized mainstream versions of what is considered food like refined sugars and carbs hits an isolated culture, the results is always the sameā€¦

If any legislative law was enacted and placed a very heavy health tax on any kind of refined sugar and processed carbohydrate, people would be less inclined to buy it, eat it or afford itā€¦

#6

Indeed - cultural genocide has been horrific, and is ongoing - so many broken treaties and scams.

(Sophie) #7

Mary, Iā€™d love to sit down with you for an evening. Iā€™m sure it would be wonderful and enlightening! If youā€™re ever in the Chattanooga area, you would be more than welcome at my humble abode. :open_hands:

(Linda) #8

I was just thinking the same thing, Sophie. What an interesting person @SlowBurnMary would be to chat with.

(Sophie) #9

Iā€™ll invite you over when she is here. We can have a pajama party! :smile:

#10

@JustPeachy @misterbutters Thank you for your kind words, esp touching this week as have been homesick for my former location and friends, whilst temporarily relocated to a strange town.

@JustPeachy I receive your kind invitation with heartfelt happiness!

Itā€™s a cosmic irony that when I use an online pseudonym I tend to be ā€œseenā€ in ways that otherwise can get misperceived in person or just never seen by some!

I feel so grateful to be able to write stuff I find relevant (and, Iā€™m a natural writer in general), and for this pretty wonderful forum space. Hereā€™s to keto friends across the miles :sparkles::rainbow: :sunflower::avocado: