The Sustainable Kitchen - For the Love of Food
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bring on the fries and make my hamburger blood rare? Are you beginning to get the feeling that every time you pick up the newspaper, turn on the radio or tv or click an email or learn about a new food scare over the past year, we've heard that there's too much mercury and canned albacore tuna. Too many PCBs in the farm salmon and learned that some cows just aren't happy. I half expect to see bumper stickers with messages like eating could be hazardous to your health or food kills. Give me a break, life's too short to front over everything we put into our minds is john mortimer, a british novelist and playwright once said I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There's no pleasure worth for going just for an extra three years in a geriatric ward, turkey burgers, soy substitutes, low carb diets, not me baby. I subscribe to the view that irish coffee provides everything I need in one glass. All four essential food groups, alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. Don't get me wrong, there are real dangers out there and one would be foolish to ignore them. I won't order raw oysters from the gulf of Mexico in a warm month at some dive where proper refrigeration is non existent eating can be and should be one of the greatest pleasures of life. Why should we let others, no matter how well meaning make our mealtime feel like a round of Russian roulette. Scientific findings seem to fluctuate almost daily and confusion and conflict reign supreme over the years, caffeine has been reported to cause cancer to inhibit conception to induce miscarriage, to increase cholesterol, to trigger irregular heartbeats and to aggravate ulcers. But caffeine has also reported to help people lose weight, increase tolerance for exercise, diminished drowsiness, make Children more attentive in school and make adults less likely to suffer bronchial asthma. We have been and continue to be very confused about what we should be eating, maintain our health barry Glassner, a USC sociologist, says you don't see this much with people who have a long established culinary tradition that they're comfortable with. It's hard to imagine the french transfixed by the scares that preoccupy americans, moderation and common sense. Not cancer should be our buzzwords or as Mark Twain put it, part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. For the sustainable kitchen. This is chef stew stein