Missing Home?

Hi relundad, thankfully I still live in the UK and the thing/s I think I would miss is my security of my home, the country side and would probably feel 'alone' in another country although i may have good friends and neighbors there, climatising myself to another country would be very hard unless I had been totally certain about moving there in the beginning....littleowl

You don't have to be from another country to miss the cooking, this is such a large country that different states have different cooking. I miss Southern Corn bread and black eyed peas from Texas.

I come from Malaysia chinese came to Russian Federation since 17 years old for my education. I gotto go home once a time each year mostly for 2 months of my summer holiday. Yes I missed home I missed my family that I can not be with my parents by their side to take care of them. Besides this I missed the food too. Malaysia has the best food ever I have eaten! Missed the hawkers food, SOb sob

Years ago, when I was young , I lived in Singapore for just over 2 years. I'm an Australian. It's true...the thing we missed most of all was "real food". Dairy products back then were scarce...the only milk avaiable was powdered or if bottled, it was soy milk. We never got to have a steak for it was imported, frozen and very expensive. I was happy trying out all the wonderful local cuisines but my hubby was a fussy eater even in Australia so he was a real bore. I also missed Smith's potato crisps. So, there you have it....real milk, steak and potato chips or crisps

Being from the midwestern part of the United States, myself, I can easily see why people from other cultures would miss their food because the food where I grew up was so bland as to be almost tasteless, and people who used seasonings creatively were sort of ostracized. My mum, for example, only allowed two spices on the dinner table, commercial salt and black pepper, but we were continually warned against using the pepper. "You will get a pepper ball in your stomach!" she said, or "That will give you ulcers!" As soon as I got out on my own I bought every kind of spice that was available. Before the internet made international buying possible, one had to travel to a large city to get any kind of interesting food. Even cheese came in only 3 flavors in my provincial town: cream cheese, mild cheddar, and that emulsified mix of manufacturing by-products they called American cheese, which is melted protein gel and liquid fat held together by sodium phosphate, potassium phosphate, tartrate, citrate, or whatever. Bleagh, but one has to admit it tastes yummy on a cheeseburger.

Well even though I am from here, my grandparents were born in Russia and since they have passed away I miss the food. No one has been able to make it as good as "grandma" did. I know that they also missed the language since both really struggled with English so bad.