In fact, now there are many more dietary possibilities for this poor man. Flat food is the new black - 'Many foods benefit from a good pounding and leveling.' Many people too. I'm all for two-dimensional food. Posh restaurants have been making 3-D food towers since the eighties. Flat is the way ahead. Up in Norfolk, of course, we've had flat food for years. It is known as roadkill.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Flat Food: The Way of the Future
Doctor: You have an unusual combination of typhoid, smallpox and ebola. Patient: Ohmygod! Is there anything you can do? Doctor: (Chuckling) Of course, we keep you in a special room on a diet of pizzas, pancakes and papadoms. Patient: Does that work? Doctor: No, but those are the only things we can slide under the door.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Well you live and learn - following that link to Flat Food introduced me to the term locavore - and that link took me to the term foodshed... I need to lie down.
ReplyDeletethere's a nerd character in Microserfs who locks himself in his room and only accepts food as can slip under the door - as usual, fiction leads the way.
ReplyDeleteLocavore? Celebrating the local foodshed? Sounds very '90's to me. The name of the game today is local clothing. We on the cutting edge of the anti-globalization movement have Paris fashion and Chinese-made shirts in our sights and won't wear anything that wasn't made within fifty miles. Here is our leader. Well, at least he was our leader until we caught him with Chilean grapes and Greek feta in his lunchbag.
ReplyDeletewell, chilean grapes is one thing but feta has to be greek. that's the problem with locavorism - a lack of authenticity!
ReplyDeleteYou've never heard of Canadian feta? You should try it. It goes particularly well with a glass of Finnish wine.
ReplyDeleteLocavores seem to have the considerable advantage of living in California - wouldn't be so great in Alaska...
ReplyDeleteAt last, respite from the leaning tower of Pisa food stacks. Beat that steak, mash those spuds, splat those mushy peas.
ReplyDeletethe only food that comes out of Alaska is Baked Alaska, as far as I can remember.
ReplyDeletethis cheese thing all began to get messy with Cheddar. People as far away as Australia and New Zealand started to make cheese destinct to a small region of pasture in Somerset. I suppose Mature Woolabri Wonga Wonga wouldn't have had much market appeal in europe.