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Food by degrees
By Arthur Webster
Isn't food wonderful? Although I cannot afford my favourite food at the moment, I still manage to eat regularly. A great deal is written and spoken of about 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' food. Let me tell you, I never yet ate a chip that had meningitis or the measles. All the fruit I eat is either in the peak of health or has had a lengthy convalescence since its last bout of illness. There is so much snobbery and foolishness spoken about food that I thought I might as well have my own two penn'orth of rant. If your food is palatable, it requires nothing else. Food is simply the fuel on which the engine that drives your mind and body, operates. If it is capable of being processed by the facilities within your body, food is pretty blameless when it comes to various health matters - but that is not going to sell many books and training courses, is it? We really need to look at food from two simple viewpoits. First, that food is a necessary evil and we need to ingest to survive. Second, that food is a sensuous experience far removed from the mundane mechanics of filling a fuel tank. I was once invited to a meal at a very expensive nouvelle quisine restaurant. I had been looking forward to a rare and sensual evening. What a shock I received when I found that the food was actually more suited to being admired as a visual effect than being consumed in any measure of hope of replenishing the body's fuel reserves. The dishes were very attractive, the food on the dishes hardly made any impact at all as to what it actually was. It was probably just as well that there was not enough of any particular item to develop a taste for it - it is so 'common' to lick the plate! (Mind you, at the prices, it probably would have worked out at several dollars a lick!) Food can be a great pleasure and I spend many happy hours in my kitchen making tasty and fulfilling dishes from pulses, green vegetables and fruit but please, if I serve you a dish and you can still see any of the plate - complain! Food is not evil. Food does not make you fat. Food can be savoured or gobbled down. Food can be eaten with utensils or fingers. Food is good for you. Food is not to worry or concern yourself about. Leave that to the food fascists. ENJOY! |
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I had to laugh at someone the other day. We were eating out at a restaurant, and across at another table this lady got her plate of food set down before her. Without even tasting it she picked up the salt and started pouring it on her food. Someone else on her table started talking to her, and as she was obviously distracted by the conversation she continued to hold the salt upside down and it just kept on pouring. Funny what people do! I tasted my meal and it was already perfectly salted.
 | | odls Feb 18, 2010 07:58 | |
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I am always surprised when people reach for the condiments before they reach for their food.
Maybe they know how bad the cook is?
It's hard to say, Arthur. I would absolutely love to totally agree with you on this but my take on this is: 1. Different people's bodies seem to react differently to different foods than others.
2. Some of the food research has some validity to it. The problem is that for some foods, the results of this research either change, or produces a plethora of different opinions. I guess the bottom line is that people should listen to their bodies...
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You know, by the time we are grown up and able to express a preference, we have probably tried a lot of food and decided that a - we liked it b - we didn't like it c - it liked us d - it didn't like us The only time people seem to have trouble with food is when they are eating something because someone else told them it was good for whatever ailed them. Usually that someone else was selling a 'magic pill' diet, a detox scheme or was simply exploiting the lack of discernment many people have between what they know ro be true and what someone else tells them is true. I love dog biscuits but if I never tried one I wouldn't know that (the best are the black ones!). I also love mushrooms and eat them like sweets. I can't remember how many times I have been told I should wash them before eating them - but who can wait that long?
Another good intel, Arthur. I remember the job, at age 10 of taking a chicken, cutting off the head, with the axe and then dunking the bird into a pail of boiling water. The smell of wet feathers stayed in my senses for hours after I finished plucking the bird. At the Sunday dinner table, four hours later, I wasn't trully in love with chicken. Such was farm life!
Thanks for the memories.
Best to you.
Frederick
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You mean chicken doesn't come on polystyrene trays and wrapped in cling film? I'm sure a lot of young people would be shocked to hear that chicken actually comes from a bird.
Yeeuch!
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