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Pierre Chombe says that Sunigalese cooking starts with the value of Terenga, a belief that...

When you share with someone your meal, that person is actually someone bringing blessings to you. Today we explore the heart and soul of West African cooking.

It means being intuitive, generous, and in touch with your ingredients,

which is why Pierre says Senegalese cuisine is much like Japanese.

There is so much in common between those two cultures.

The rice, the way they do it in Senegal, the same way they would do it in Japan they would

take a portion of the harvest put it on the altar just to connect these

ingredients to a bigger picture the universe and and to be grateful.

Food and philosophy at the West African table that's coming up later on the show.

But now I'm joined by journalist Jen Dahl who's here to explain a puzzling new trend in entertaining at home.

Her article for the LA Times is called Should You Charge Friends to Eat at your place.

Jen, welcome to Milk Street. Hi, thanks for having me.

So when I read this I was going like,

there's nothing in my life that prepared me for this.

I don't understand this on any level. I find it. I mean, there's

nothing about it that I understand. So I'm a lot older than you are. So take me through this in a way that helps me understand what's going on.

I will but let me first say that I don't even think that it's about your age not

understanding I think that the explosion across the internet

when these things happen and someone complains about it on Reddit is huge and

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