Month: February 2022

Hot Pot, also known as steamboat or soup-food, is a cooking method in which raw ingredients are cooked in a  simmering broth. It is characterized by cooking and eating at the same time. The food is still hot when eating. People, therefore, love to have hot pot in freezing winter. Typical ingredients to put in a hot pot include seafood, sliced potatoes, sliced meat, tofu, mushrooms, meatballs, glass noodles, vegetables, etc. Ingredients will be pre-sliced into smaller and thin sections so that they will be cooked quickly. Moreover, it is common to dip that already-cooked food in various seasonings to add more flavor. Different types of hot pot have different seasonings such as soy sauce, sesame paste, chili sauce, Shacha sauce, and vinegar.  The origin of hot pot is actually re...

Image: Deepa Iyer On January 31st, 2022, the Forever Foreign series invited lawyer, activist, and writer Deepa Iyer to talk about solidarity post the 9/11 era in the webinar “From Silos to Solidarities: 9/11 and Beyond.” “Solidarity” is one of those terms that have been thrown around quite a bit in relation to activism, but…what is “solidarity” and in what contexts has “solidarity” been used? How has “solidarity” been practiced? Through a quick Google search, solidarity (noun) is the “unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.” What Iyer addresses is how solidarity can be a verb when it becomes a practice and a strategy by living every single day showing up for people you share simil...