AMERICA'S PAVLOVIAN TRIGGER POLITICS: "Freedom Dumplings" for Your Food Delights

Some people might remember the controversial campaign against France when we got trained to say "Freedom Fries" - almost overnight everything wildly considered 'French' was either avoided or boycotted or renamed to reclaim the notion of Freedom.

NOW ALMOST OVERNIGHT EVERYTHING BAD IS RUSSIAN...the fast un-leashed fury is un-informed lashing out even to one brand of Russian vodka (Stolichnaya Vodka that's actually distilled in Latvia!)

That's a conditional reflex creating by training our brains and easily triggered in our Orwellian world of social media everywhere and every minute of the day-and-night.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.

Known for: Founder of modern Behavior Therapy; Classical conditioning
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1904)

Pavlov's Theory of Classical Conditioning

Based on his observations, Pavlov suggested that the salivation was a learned response. Pavlov's dog subjects were responding to the sight of the research assistants' white lab coats, which the animals had come to associate with the presentation of food.

Classical conditioning is learning through association and was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov showed that dogs could be conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell if that sound was repeatedly presented at the same time that they were given food

‘Freedom dumplings’: the chefs cooking in solidarity with Ukraine

Bakers, bartenders and cooks are using food and drink to show support and to fundraise for relief efforts

Ms Chi Cafe, a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, is selling ‘freedom dumplings’ to support Ukrainian relief efforts. Photograph: Courtesy of Shirley Chung/Ms Chi Café

 

These are excerpts from a report by

Lois Beckett

Thu 10 Mar 2022 18.01 EST Last

 modified on Thu 10 Mar 2022 18.07 EST

"In Culver City, a Chinese restaurant is selling bright blue and yellow “freedom dumplings”, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. In West Hollywood, a popular cocktail bar is offering a special “Pruzhnyy”, or resilience, cocktail, made with Ukrainian Khor vodka. Bakeries across California are making special batches of hamentaschen, a Jewish cookie associated with resistance to tyrannical government officials, and pampushka, a Ukrainian garlic bread.

It’s all part of a wave of solidarity among California chefs, who are using food to show support for Ukrainians after Russia’s invasion and to fundraise for humanitarian relief efforts.

All the proceeds from the special menu items are going to organizations such as World Central Kitchen, the non-profit offering hot meals to Ukrainian refugees at border crossings; Polish Humanitarian Action; Libereco PHR, a Swiss-German relief group; and Unicef. Although the individual dollar amounts raised are often modest, the chefs, bakers and bartenders involved said they want to send a message. . .

“I understand the price of freedom. I didn’t grow up in a democracy,” said Shirley Chung, the Los Angeles chef who created the blue and yellow dumplings. Watching Ukrainians fighting for their democracy, she said, “I feel like they’re fighting for the world.”

Chef Shirley Chung was inspired to make her dumplings by the global campaign Cook for Ukraine. Photograph: Courtesy of Shirley Chung/Ms Chi Cafe

The California food industry relief efforts are part of a broader international movement. Chung said she was inspired by Cook for Ukraine, a global campaign started by London-based chefs Alissa Timoshkina, who is Russian, and Olia Hercules, who is Ukrainian, which raised more than £75,000 ($98,000) in donations in its first week. Those two friends were inspired by a previous culinary campaign, Cook for Syria, which encourages people to cook traditional meals and talk about the crisis, while also donating money for relief efforts. . .

Reference >> https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/mar/10/chefs-bakers-bartenders-solidarity-ukraine-los-angeles