So I have so much to talk about but I feel for this post it is best to revert to the very basics. The very basic as to what brought me here. Why I feel I should be important enough, at least in your eyes, to be writing a blog worthy of reading. That's not to say that at the end of this you will agree with my opinions or even agree that I do in fact write a blog worthy of reading, but at the very least I am hopeful that these posts will help people to some degree or provide an alternate perspective. I'm not sure of what that might be but maybe it answers some questions you have been dying to ask about the restaurant industry or maybe it gives you a forum to ask other unrelated questions that you think either of us can help you on. Maybe it just makes you think. Whatever it does, I hope it helps. Because for the love of god...it is apparent that the vast majority of people I have met need help with food.
And that's not to say that you're all bad. Not at all. Just most of you. And why is this important? Because food is the equivilant to what makes our cultures and societies function. I know there are obviously many other subjects that tend to play a role in our day to day lives but let's be honest here for a second. The topic of food is a subject that is discussed every single day, several times a day with everyone we know, like and love?
"What are we going to eat?", "Where do you want to go?", "How was that restaurant last night?", "Did you hear who just opened up a new restaurant?". Our culture, our livelihood, our upbringing, our emotions, our childhoods, our memories and our passions are constantly conjoured up through food. And yet, despite all of the significance that food plays in our lives we decide to degrade as many aspects surrounding this wonderful subject as we possibly can.
We talk down to our servers, buy shitty food, open terrible restaurants, teach our children the wrong way to handle food, abuse animals, go on crazy unhealthy diets...the list goes on and on. To the point that it's endless. The fact is, that as a country...nay, shall I be so bold as to say the world...we disrespect the importance that food, as a single, culture defining mechanisism, plays in our lives. To this I say shame on us.
Culture is based in three things; art, music and food. FOOD! This, apparently simple category of substance has taken up one third of the equation needed to form entire cultures. To further this point, it is also known that mankind needs three things to survive..clothing, shelter and nourishment. Again, ONE THIRD of the equation!!! And yet the world consistently degrades this subject, misrepresents the importance, under estimates the necessity and miseducates our youth on this entire subject. What the fuck?!?!
So there you have it. The reason why I am on my quest of culinary truths. I want to find how food is handled, treated and regarded by other cultures. I am secretly hopeful that it is with a higher regard than our culture but I guess that has yet to be determined. Sort of.
dude, you left out written and oral tradition. id say that's as important to the definition of culture as food. don't forget what you're also doing here in your quest of culinary truths: writing.
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