What a surprising content of the most recent Patagonia newsletter: It’s about food! Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard shares the traditional Nepali Tsampa Soup. You can buy the provisions for Tsampa soup on their site. Cool!
What a surprising content of the most recent Patagonia newsletter: It’s about food! Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard shares the traditional Nepali Tsampa Soup. You can buy the provisions for Tsampa soup on their site. Cool!
While Patagonia’s efforts to sell sustainable food are laudable, its cultural appropriation of tsampa is not. Ysampa is the staple food of Tibetan people. It is not a soup, nor is it an ingredient in any soup they eat. It is roasted barley flour mixed with a little water. Tibetan people are struggling to hold on to their culture and Patagonia should name this product something else.
Oct 18th, 2014 / 6:37 pm