Comfort Food…
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
I realize this is supposed to be a nonconfrontational question that makes the respondent think of a culinary delight that makes them feel happy and evokes fond memories, but my brain didn’t go there when I read the question.
My first thought is that this question comes from a seat of privilege. In this country many live to eat not the reason that our ancestors had to eat to live. There are people in this country that are hungry and children that go to bed with empty stomachs that disregards that nations that go without regularly.
We have a cable network that is all about food and cooking and I am as guilty as anyone for watching it. Has anyone ever thought about these cooking competitions where multiple chefs cook a meal to be judged. These chefs make just enough food to present a composed dish for judging and the judges eat one or two bites from each plate they are presented to judge. The amount of effort and wasted food is obscene.
The Food Network is just one travesty in the absurd food wasting culture we have in the United State… we sponsor gluttony competitions where a person is challenged to consume an obscene amount of food in one sitting.
So in answer to Comfort Foods, if you are eating your feeling you have a problem, if food evokes fond memories that is great… but everyone please remember that this nation alone wastes enough food every day to feed a nation of hungry people.
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