Our World of Dumplings

Of all the conclusions that Michael Pollan makes in In Defense of Food, the most important one might be that cooking and eating meals is a community act–it is how we ate for centuries, but it is not how we eat now, and we are all the worse for it.

In Our World of Dumplings, children in an apartment complex travel from apartment to apartment to see what people are making for a dumpling festival, and the findings are delicious: Jamaican johnnycakes, Jewish kreplach, Chinese jiao zi, Peruvian empanadas, and many more. It’s lovely to see people from all over coming together to share each other’s food and company.