http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/10/the-restuarant-in-today-and-in-history Comments On: The Restaurant Today and in History by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The invention of haute cuisine was never about democratizing good food. It was never even really about good food. It was first and foremost about *new* food.
All you need to do to understand this is to go somewhere that still has a genuine and genuinely old tradition of cooking. (america doesn't. Seattle even less so than much of the country.) provided you avoid the sectors emptied out by real poverty and deprivation, you will find ample true examples of democratic good food.
To take java as one example (since i've lived there half a dozen years): even if the tradition doesnt perfectly match my taste--i tend to go more for italian--you can find truly excellent, varied, and complex cuisine at any intersection in any town, and almost any village--for pennies. Where food is being murdered in java is in the big cities (mainly jakarta and surabaya), where fashion and money and too little taste are replacing good, widely affordable food with overpriced, unhealthy slop thats supposed to emulate cosmopolitan offerings.
It is really difficult to take your attacks on decentralized cooking seriously, when it runs so flagrantly contrary to what food actually tastes like. But after that video on chicken fried steak, i guess you arent even public taste enemy number one at the slog, so why do i even bother.
Posted by Xtoph]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:54:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:37:45 -0800 The Stranger
Who are you trying to convince by the way?
Posted by dirac]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:27:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by keshmeshi]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:08:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by decidedlyodd]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:53:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by thelyamhound]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:40:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Hernandez]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:23:40 -0800 The Stranger
For a Marxist you really don't seem to know a lot about the working classes, Charles.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:21:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pragmatic]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:53:31 -0800 The Stranger