For example, along the steppe, which is a huge, expansive land, which, as we said, has Europe on one side and China on the other, you have an entire vast You know, gumbo of ethnic makeup, every kinds of me.
So by determinism, you mean there's this incalculable gumbo of past causes and conditions that have led us to this moment, and we are acting out our past conditioning without much agency whatsoever.
And he shares with us, the origins and traditions of foods like gumbo, grits, biscuits, and barbecue sauce and the ingenious ways they're being prepared today.