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   The idea of this website is to create a space where a person can share their ideas and thoughts based on current and historical culinary theories. The point is to establish a foundation of knowledge that will shape the way we think about food in our daily lives. America is living a double life right now. There is a new trend in the media. Celebrity Chefs, books and television shows being pumped out faster than information can be processed. People are actively searching out the best quality of food as close to home as possible. Yet those same people still crave fast food, and giant food manufactures sprint to keep up with the current food trends. Organic isn’t cool anymore. Sustainable and Local is. As great as this is, I feel that even this will come to an end. It almost seems as if people are forcing themselves to do this. They feel they have to know what risotto is and how to properly make it. Don’t get me wrong, this is all good and encouraging stuff here, it is just annoying how the media is promoting all this and one day like everything else; the hype will stop. There is a thin layer of knowledge in the American culinary scene. People want this beautiful cuisine, and the prestige that goes with it, but the idea is all wrong. We don’t have to preserve anymore. We don’t have to kill our own chickens. Pull the weeds from our own gardens, make stocks and soups from the carcass of last nights meal. All we have to do is go to Whole Foods and buy something that might be better than what we could have produced anyways. The reason behind all these old recipes and traditions are what made cuisine beautiful. The beauty is when all the mother did was cook her way from one meal to the next to feed her family.Now…I fully understand that if one chooses to live in America, one can not really live that life anymore. You will end up being more upset because society will eat you instead. I would love nothing more than to have my own self sustaining farm, and live that life; but I also love walking down the street and buying a gallon of milk at eleven thirty at night. In the following posts, I want to hear peoples stories on how they look at food. How they would be willing to change their lives, if at all?