Setting the Terms
I'm starting a blog about food. The standing of food in current culture, what food means to me, what it means to others, what I'd like it to mean for everyone, etc. I'm writing from the perspective of a participant in food culture rather than an active contributor. I've had a brief time involved in a high-end butcher shop but that hardly justifies what I'd consider an experienced perspective. Instead, I write as someone who has consumed food his whole life, food culture for the past 8 years, and watched the appreciation of food progress and warp into something that can be beautiful, repulsive, and compelling, all at the same time. I'm doing this so that I can determine how I want to approach food, if I want to at all. Food means a lot to me, so much so that the very fact that I have to consider whether or not it's something I want to pursue is regrettable. But, when I take a step back and view the state of food in everyday society, it's impossible ...