The fridge is a very private part of the home. It's not that the number of onions in the drawer or the expiration date on a crusty bottle of hot sauce are marks of shame, but the food items we keep around provide a certain amount of personal narrative. A new photo series on Micropolis:NYC will take a look inside New Yorkers' fridges, and publish autobiographical profiles in the form of each subject explaining their life through food choices. Check out the first installment below.





Here's an excerpt from the profile about those 17-year-old bonito flakes:

"I have a jar of bonito flakes dipped in soy sauce. It’s been in my fridge for 17 years, since I came to the US. I use this is for making rice balls, but it’s never been changed or cleaned. I think it still has some essence of 1995. This is an important condiment to me. But I like to keep it. It never goes bad. It’s like a gem. It is impossible to go bad. You put the sauce in the middle of the rice ball and then wrap seaweed around it."

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