Joy of Food
What is it about our fascination with watching food being transformed from raw ingredient into a meal?
It’s an enduring pastime that has something to do with a turning point in human history.
When we passed the stage of eating anything and everything we could kill or collect to survive, we entered a more leisured phase of exploration.
Cooking, or perhaps more properly cheffing, was a slow process of tasting, understanding and chronicling our food journey; a process which trickled down the generations from prince’s table to collective peasant tradition.
Cooking existed and exists because the result of turning basics food stuffs into something more pleasurable to eat than a turnip is magic.
It combines everything that makes us human – aspiration, desire for knowledge, scientific nosiness, delight of the senses, love of theatre and sharing with others.
Now we have Food Tube …
Online food videos are more popular than online cats, which is going some. They are mainly concerned with showing metamorphosis through recipes of ingredients into a dish of some sort, which by definition aspires to be delicious or different.
We can’t get enough of them.