An Introduction to Culinary Anarchy

Proceed with Caution!  If you enjoy cooking at home and going out to restaurants please be advised that reading this could inhibit your enjoyment of these activities.  

  The world's culinary future is at risk.   Look around at the hermetically sealed blocks of proteins that line the isles of every supermarket in America, chunks of meat that we can only presume once came from some living animal.   Stripped of their identity, their lives trivialized and largely forgotten, these ghostly creatures live in a world shrouded by the corporations who tirelessly pump them through automated production lines.  

  Our vegetables grow on vast tracts of earth void of character.  Endless rows of identical crops strip the earth of nutrients while giant machines try to play god by creating some artificially induced equilibrium.  These vegetables show up at markets in perfectly stacked boxes- conveniently engineered for ease of transport and storage;  Their insipid-unripe flesh little more than a reflection of what they were once intended to be.  

  The US government not only allows this bastardization of our culinary heritage- but actively encourages it.   The FDA has fallen apart and lost control over the safety of our food.  Giant corporations are eradicating heirloom crops along with family owned farms and restaurants in a way that can only be described as a culinary holocaust.  Without public intervention your kids will never know the taste of fresh tomato and your grandkids won't know that beef once came from a cow.  

  This is a blog that is intended to cut through the bullshit and expose the truth.  By now we have all heard of "localvore", "Organic", "Sustainable" and all the other catch phrases.  We have watched movies and read books that outline the problems we are facing - but we still don't have any idea how much trouble we are in.   This is not a problem that can be fixed through coffee table books and weekend social clubs- it is something that requires a deep rooted social rebellion.  

  

  

an·ar·chy

Pronunciation: \ˈa-nər-kē, -ˌnär-\

Function: noun

Etymology: Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek, from anarchos having no ruler, from an- + archos ruler 

Date: 1539

1 a : absence of government b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority c : a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government
2 a : absence or denial of any authority or established order b : absence of order :