Showing posts with label local food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local food. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Friday, 13 September 2013
Food: cooking and sharing
Although people still say they don't have time to cook proper food, there are many pleasures they miss.
Food shared is food loved, whether it be simple buttered bread or something a bit more adventurous. Having the crack around your meals makes the cook happy to share the fruits of their labour, and enables the others gathered round the table to talk, eat and share common bonds.I think that the more we can make it more fashionable, sexy or whatever it takes to push food, cooking and sharing further up everybody's list of priorities, then the better off we all will be.
Food shared is food loved, whether it be simple buttered bread or something a bit more adventurous. Having the crack around your meals makes the cook happy to share the fruits of their labour, and enables the others gathered round the table to talk, eat and share common bonds.I think that the more we can make it more fashionable, sexy or whatever it takes to push food, cooking and sharing further up everybody's list of priorities, then the better off we all will be.
Sometimes it's just the fear of failure that some people see as a good and valid reason to keep going back to the ready meal or the take away. It's up to the Do's to do what we can to help the Won't Dos and Can't Do's.
It may have sparked controversy but Jamie's campaign is along the right lines: big screen TV's are always less important than Food.
5 Food Safety Rules
It may have sparked controversy but Jamie's campaign is along the right lines: big screen TV's are always less important than Food.
5 Food Safety Rules
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Friday, 9 August 2013
Local food
The local food movement, which is of great interest to all of us or certainly should be, is a very complex issue.
While we all applaud the new drive toward "localism", it is the duty of those at the artisan/production end of food to move things on a bit.
The strides we have made in the last few years are really quite amazing, and now, the much more difficult thing to achieve will be to move "localism" outside the foodie fraternity.
The hardest nuts to crack would be those people for whom value for money and cost are the biggest motivators. The problem with this group is not their unwillingness to act, but the lack of the right tools to do so; tools like education and the means to generate the raw material to cook with - you might say, the ultimate conundrum of the chicken or the egg.
When we do crack it, the food culture will change beyond all recognition. Maybe then we'll be able to look back with pride, at all the many people who fought so hard for this change in so many ways, remembering that it was the many individual drops of rain into a bucket that eventually filled it.