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A culinary tchernobyl
Or may I say Culinary Fukushima?
Upside: Same stuff with a new taste maybe, but the same calories, proteins and carbs with some fat.
Downside: Mutations, fallout and endless misery of complex procedures and trap of believing that the simple joy of eating is a meta-complex monstruosity in need of centrifuges and delicate manipulation of the food and its needed byproducts.
Just for a few calories worth of condiments? What makes good taste is what gives us sustenance and best for our survival, after millions of years of evolution, and those ingredients are the same as before.
We need simplicity and less in our lives, not worship the specter of the complex and disaster prone. And this is where that 2400+ pages book scares me.
Sure sometimes we can cook something elaborate, but Nature loves simplicity, as much as the worst that can happen with solar panels or wind is shade or none of the later, when trying to generate a few watts.
Not a 300 year exclusion zone the size of Japan.
I love to keep my cooking simple, done by instinct with empirically felt impressions, not in the consultation of an operations manual for a nuclear power plant!
March 2011 · Books