Carey Payne
meredith453.bsky.social
Carey Payne
@meredith453.bsky.social
Clinical SLP who wants the population to know:
Keep your communication healthy!
My seemingly split personality about the "Cultural Foods Tour": I want to try new things but am very choosey about how to start. Luckily, I discovered biryani - a lunch SPECIAL! Though I was in a restaurant featuring Pakistani foods, this spicy dish is found from the Levant to Southeast Asia.
January 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Eating a pumpernickel bagel today allows you to say in 2025, "Never had I ever...". Born in Westphalia, a hit in NYC, it's made with dark rye flour and baked a LONG time. Slightly sweet, delightfully nutty, charmingly chewy: it's here to stay. Besides lox/classic cream cheese, try veg. cream cheese.
December 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There are so many fast food/fast casual bagel breakfast sandwiches out there, that listing them all would make this post merely an ad for them. But a great bagel supports almost all the layers of sandwich goodness you want. You get chewiness, you get often some great contrast flavors, and you enjoy.
December 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've been amiss with posts to this account, so including "everything" on Christmas Day might gain me some dispensation. Though A LOT of people claim to have invented the everything bagel, consensus indicates it is about 50 years old. Lox? Capers? Cream cheese? Everything? You're not bored now!
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's time to transition to that beloved nosh, the bagel. Be it Einstein's or Dunkin's, or Bruegger's or Noah's, Manhattan, Big Apple, Au Bon Pain, or Boss nosh; - we have many different ways to boost our day with a tasty bagel. A fixture of Jewish life, Americans want their ring of chew.
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Did you know that falafel may have originated in Egypt, and that its original ingredients included fava beans?? It may have happened because the Coptic Christian population wanted a substitute for meat during Lent. As the food was carried by Egyptians into the Middle East, chickpeas were the star.
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Reports of this "cultural foods tour" should include consistent reports on all parameters, with each of the foods listed. Following will include culture clash and street food for three dishes; appropriation, hybrids, native and celebrity chefs on two; food for CSD, and personal experience for one.
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A Ukrainian borscht recipe has ingredients to provide enough umami (savory flavor, with the pork sausage); no acidity other than for the beets, when vinegar is often an ingredient in the dish; heartiness from the vegetables, and garnish that lets you interject tart and zest into the bite of borscht!
September 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Borscht was initially a fermented soup made from common hogweed. The plant is found within Europe and parts of Asia. The organism's variety known as giant hogweed, native to the Caucasus area of Europe, is invasive to western Europe and the US. Beets became the primary flavor and the soup was in.
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
How versatile, how penetrating is kimchi for today's Korean cooking? Kimchi Pop!, with three locations in the Chicago area, features dishes e.g., pan - fried scallion pancake, kimchi fried rice, and kimchi stew. Kimchi is also available as a side. Yeowoosai, also in Chicago, features kimchi fries!
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Are tacos healthy, or can they be? Consider decisions in taco - making like these. Whole grain tortillas. Lean protein. High - fiber and many-colored toppings. Limited cheese and high-calorie sauces. Spices assist your metabolism. Control your portions. These tacos might require earnest searches.
September 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Where did the taco come from? Indigenous of Mexico, Central and South America discovered that nixtamalization of corn increased its nutritive value. Cooked corn, then flour discs became the tortilla, receptacle for toppings that reflected your region's tastes. Fast or family food, it's so good!
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
For those Chicago area CSD students not adventurous to find tacos in the community, the Niche website lists ratings of most of your schools' food services: St. Xavier is #4 within IL schools, followed by Elmhurst, #6; Governors State, #9; Northern IL, #17; Lewis, #18; N'western, #32; DePaul, #38.
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Chicago Uni students returning need a place to eat tacos! Taquerias ready to serve you include: Buen Dia, within Northwestern's Norris center; Los 3 Panchos, in Lincoln Park near DePaul; Su Taqueria El Rey Del Taco, near Rush; MiAmor, near St. Xavier; El Barrio, near Lewis; Steak Burrito, Elmhurst.
September 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Celebrities like Danny Trejo, George Lopez, Wiz Kalifa, and James Beard award winner Ana Liz Pulido have drawn us to their taquerias. Likewise, there are hard-working small taco businesses in your town, ready to serve you. Proteins galore, sides you adore; crunch if you like, great flavor spike.
August 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today I experienced a South American turn on a taco: flounder, Panko - coated; ceviche sauce; red onion; caramelized sweet potato and parsley, all in a flour tortilla. Two substantial vessels of tender taste, the ceviche flavor like an aioli. You eat slowly to avoid spilling, and to savor the mix.
August 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Think of the falafel sandwich in pita with salad greens and tahini sauce. The falafel is most often fried, though there are options for baking the fava/chickpea balls. An individual pita will contain 200+ calories. Fresh salad greens are low-calorie, vitamin - packed. Tahini? Spread it sparingly.
August 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The additional types of prevention modalities include primordial, going beyond the reduction or avoidance of risk for impairment - to eliminate the risk altogether. Quaternary prevention focuses on the balance a person may strike, using medical vs. non-medical interventions for a health issue.
August 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Where has this morphing of CSD come from? Audiology has led the charge with a Special Interest Division in public health audiology. Boothless audiometry, spurred by technological advances in hearing testing, is most easily understood. Social determinants of health are now on our minds. Get out, SLP!
August 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A communication sciences and disorders (CSD) professional, whether speech - language or hearing specialist, can survey a patient's grocery in their neighborhood to discover if traditional foods are easily found and reasonably priced. Today in zip code 60108: pita and tzatziki, yes; falafel, no.
August 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Keep your mouth happy with great oral care, after eating a meal like the falafel wrap. Brushing, flossing, rinsing together act as a major preventative measure against aspiration pneumonia. Good self - care habits like thorough oral care when you are young, translate to easy routines late in life.
August 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The sandwich when bitten, is reconstituted with chewing, salivating and propelling, into a moist, minced bolus (Greek, "clod"). You can see the bolus on x-ray fluoroscopy as a "teardrop" shape. Falafel fried too hard may not easily break down with chewing, and lodge in your throat. No sauce? Slog.
July 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Of course, finding all the ingredients is the upstream part. It's the ingestion itself, the gustatory gamboling that establishes this as a primo dish. I ordered a falafel wrap, spicey, from a local fast casual Mediterranean restaurant. The bowl of lentil soup accompanying this became dinner. Good? 😁
July 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
How easy is it to find ingredients in a local store, that allow you to make a popular cultural dish? I will scan at least three stores over the next few days, to compare the availability for everything you need to make: FALAFEL IN A PITA WITH TZATZIKI SAUCE. If that whets your appetite, let's go!
July 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How does dietary acculturation work? We've seen that the burrito (as well as the taco) is wildly now popular throughout the US, with its construction as varied as the tastes of a hungry community. If you want a cultural dish but can't find or make an ingredient, you improvise. Tzatziki with - mayo?
July 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM