I would like to start off saying exactly where this blog is to go. I can’t, though I have an idea.
I’ve been considering it long and hard, for a while.
(I know my humor is difficult).
Tomorrow I will be going to an induction meeting for the Park Slope Brooklyn Co-op. I guess that will be my next post.
After a three year break from reading any food politics I’ve picked up the copy of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” It was the last book on the subject I bought when I was actively exploring food politics. Never got around to reading it until now.
It’s making a refreshing impact.
To note: I am a professional chef by trade, an anti- globalist, an American, a cynic, and a critic of our present course. Coarse.
My beliefs: That organics have become a joke, that the James Beard “American Cuisine White Papers” are disappointing, GM foods (by logical premise) are suspect. Slow Foods may be going the same way as organics as being nothing more than a marketing tool. The FDA is a blind.
That American food (and general self-esteem) is suffering from the same lack of sense, honor, truth, pride, and “actual value” that our present economic system’s woes are representative of.
I suppose, as I am reading him right now, that my first food quote will have to come from Michael Pollan:
“regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa." - Michael Pollan
Another words, to the producer, and eater, "To Thyne Own Self Be True" -William Shakespeare (the Escoffier of poets)
