Food - Initial Thoughts

Food is the fuel to life, and thankfully unlike some processes that we rely on for survival IT'S SUBLIME, I would go as far as to say HEAVNLY! This is solely for the people who have enough chance the environment they inhabit gives them the opportunity to eat what they please and as much as they please. (MONEY STATUS PERMITTING). I consider the food I eat sacred because so many people around the world either have no food at all or eat food that shouldn’t even be considered proper nourishment because of the way it is made, and many of the people simply live this way because they are brainwashed by the government that what they are given is “good” and all that truly matters is the mass corporation makes more money, not the quality of consumers health. Honestly I don’t honor my food with what respect it deserves when my mother buys the groceries and puts them in the fridge. I see no price tag, and haven’t induced any labor to get the money, to provide the supply of food or to make this food. However when I buy food with my own money or make the meal myself I treat my food with more respect, but when I respect my food the most and it taste the best is when I pick it, kill it, catch it OR (WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER COOKS IN FRANCE, SHE IS THE BEST CHEF EVER!).

          My family owns a country house in upstate New York (Delaware County) in a minuscule town called Roxbury. Across the road is an organic farm, which is owned, and ran by a family friend named Tovey Halleck. I have been all over the farm since we bought the property and have done all sorts of things such as, weed, plant, pick, take care of the animals, kill the animals, and help run their local farm stands (also hanging out with all the interesting individuals it attracts with magnetic strength). When I am in the fields and eat the vegetables raw; with remnants of dirt is when the food tastes the purist. He has a field that is only sweet corn; eaten raw in the field is like biting into gold, with a sweet texture like Dulce de Leche and rice pudding combined, but with the flavor of corn. I come from a household where food is one of the biggest events, on my mother’s side; my grandmother cooks food to die for, and had 3 daughters and all 3 work in culinary environments. I have been raised to only eat organic and not mass-produced when possible and affordable, no other drinks at the table but water and wine, eating fruit, and cheese, and ALWAYS SALAD. I come from a home that places food on a shrine... When I was younger on a typical brick cold day I would go to the Chinese restaurant on my schools block and get a warm deep-fried eggroll, I thought it was the best, a burning coal to embrace with decent taste and a full belly for a buck! I would put my key into the door, turn the key, close the door, greet my mother and out of her mouth would come ***"Tu peu la friture Eloise! TU ET ALLET OU ENCORE?! UNLEVE MOI SE MONTO"…."Je t'aime ousi maman". "You stink like deep fry Eloise! WHERE DID YOU GO AGAIN? TAKE OFF THAT COAT”…..” Love you too ma”. I must admit this may have prompted my desire to eat crap (im rebelling aren’t I cool) but as I grow older and realize the way I eat is not the norm in The United States, when the resources could be available this… is not a what we would call al 3rd world country, even though we seem to act like savages that we should have dared called "3rd world countries" before…. Whatever that ranking’s signify. When meat taste the best is when I stay at my grandmother’s house in France and she buys all her food from the local butcher who is a local free-range supplier she’s known for 40 years. Following the traditional French culture to buy all produce local and at each separate store for the item, such as the butcher, the pasta and cheese shop, the fisherman stand, the vegetable market, the wine for the vineyard producer and so on. Even though this is strong in French culture it is fading and more mass-produced corporations are being used such as fast food. If food consumption was local everywhere in the USA, everyone would automatically have better health’s, through better diet. 

          I have adopted this passion for food like the women of my blood and flesh before me. Recently I’ve been learning all I can from my mother and all the cultures I have been exposed to in anyways. My dream for when I live alone, and must cook I want to cook all different culture’s taste bud palette spectrums. Lately I seem to have this fascination with Indian food but I love and somewhat know, southern, Provencal Mediterranean, Creole style, all sorts of Latin American, and some classic Americans.

*** FRECH SPELLING NOT CORRECT….