Thursday 28 August 2008

on eating

Most people have become accustomed to eating their food predigested and preprocessed. Knowledge, that is. That is why categories of identity seem to make us so happy: high in fat, high in sugar, low in fibre and nutrition -- we gobble them up to our hearts' content. They even give us a mystical feeling that we can look into somebody's soul and spirit without having to even engage with them first.

Me -- I like my food a posteriori -- slow cooked in the oven by my own hand, with carefully managed quantities of juices, to the point of being a little overdone.

Fast food knowledge has never appealed to me. It may give you a momentary buzz but its going to end up giving you cancer.

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