Challenging Your Food View

In AIESEC, we have these sessions at conferences and general meetings called “Challenge Your World View” which  are sessions focused on world issues, thinking outside of our “bubble” and reality here at home and learning new things about a culture, people and way of life.  These sessions are some of my favourite because it challenges you to question what is normal and to think about how people are different around the world.

Soup bubbling away on the stove

Also, because AIESEC is based on exchange, we often have interns or international delegates at conferences that can share their personal experiences making these sessions even more powerful.

Right now we have an intern from Hungary and he offered to make us a meal.  He mentioned Cherry Soup once in passing, and most of us were not too enthusiastic on the idea.  Last night he got all the ingredients for the soup and made us some sour cherry soup and we challenged our food view.  He was so excited because the cherries, which came in a jar, were a product of Hungary.

You can see the actual cherries in the soup and the white specks are the sour cream

It was actually surprising good.  The first couple bites were sour, but as my taste buds adjusted to the sourness, it was pretty good.  You are suppose to stir sour cream into it, but I did not notice a too big a change of taste with it added in.  I am usually not too adventurous with food, but  I am glad I gave this a try.