Next to sex and sometimes more intimate and even better is the sharing of food. We live in a warm it up and three minute microwave world and too often end up eating by ourselves or hurrying through a meal to get onto something else. The whole concept of sharing a meal, sharing a process, enjoying a preparation has been lost in our ever busy world. I am sometimes jealous of dirt poor societies with a single cooking pot, families gathered, strangers invited, talking, laughing, happy, appreciative of the ceremony of sharing a meal.
The very Best Art can be eaten! I was once told that you can change the flavor of an onion by the way it is sliced. Food presentation has been reduced to slop on a plate and we have forgotten how to say "thank you". Cleaning up and doing the dishes has become a hated chore. It is a shame that eating has been reduced to feeding the engine and is no longer a social engagement. We are missing out entirely on the concept of "breaking bread", sharing our Human Existence.
I like my new Pizza Oven but after two fires and beginning experiments, I suspect it won't get used very much. For Hundreds of years the Oven was the center of many households and small villages may have had just one, rivaling a Church as a central gathering place. An opportunity to share stories, enjoy the bounty and laugh together. When did we lose the joy in giving away food?
It takes two hours to prepare the fire in a wood burning oven and then, without adding to the fire, you have heat for 10 hours of cooking. Maybe Pizza first while the oven is hottest, then a roast or chicken, then maybe, a soup and still hot enough to bake a week's worth of bread! It can all be done without an I-phone or apt but you have to actually do something! and it seems we have run out of time.
The very Best Art can be eaten! I was once told that you can change the flavor of an onion by the way it is sliced. Food presentation has been reduced to slop on a plate and we have forgotten how to say "thank you". Cleaning up and doing the dishes has become a hated chore. It is a shame that eating has been reduced to feeding the engine and is no longer a social engagement. We are missing out entirely on the concept of "breaking bread", sharing our Human Existence.
I like my new Pizza Oven but after two fires and beginning experiments, I suspect it won't get used very much. For Hundreds of years the Oven was the center of many households and small villages may have had just one, rivaling a Church as a central gathering place. An opportunity to share stories, enjoy the bounty and laugh together. When did we lose the joy in giving away food?
It takes two hours to prepare the fire in a wood burning oven and then, without adding to the fire, you have heat for 10 hours of cooking. Maybe Pizza first while the oven is hottest, then a roast or chicken, then maybe, a soup and still hot enough to bake a week's worth of bread! It can all be done without an I-phone or apt but you have to actually do something! and it seems we have run out of time.
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