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Let's Get Started Making It Too Pretty To Eat
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
I have had an epiphany! Being a fan of cop shows, I get really disgusted when the gangsta says someone disrespected him. What does that mean? Can you be more specific? And what does that have to do with food creation? Right, hang in there, I'm prefacing. Why is this word disrespected being used so much? Think about it all you thinkers, or don't think, trust me instead. These TV gangstas are right, they just don't know how right! The subject of personal non-respect is so deep and tightly woven in us now, we don't recognize it. But.....it's symptoms show. Let's consider sloppyness, nasty mindedness, rudeness and just plain hatred in bulk. But most of all, always being afraid of someone else disrespecting us. I must have been reared to respect myself, but no one ever used the word respect as a shield to ward off, who knows? I was told that we were poor but priviledged. Again, what does this have to do with food?
Once upon a time, when each day was welcomed, I liked to dance with my grandmother's apron on, make bubbles in the kitchen sink with a hand mixer and garnish my food. Really. Usually tuna salad on white with the crusts off, just like in Woodward and Lothrop's Tea Room.
Why? Because I liked to treat myself as something special. It took me a while to discover I needed to drain my tasty decoration first. Did I feel like a dummy? Not on your life. I was proud of my non- soggy creation. That's one of the blessings of being four years old. A life lesson. Never allow your creative mishaps to stop you. We're all going to have more than one.
Our new web site Making It To Pretty To Eat is in tune with those trials, errors and triumphs. Fortunately, my life has been filled with wonderous foods and edible displays. So I have some inkling of fun gadgets to use, cookbooks to read and places to look for culinary
inspiration. I want my cake occassionally sprinkled with golddust, my fruit carved and my inexpensive, yet lovely plate decorated with food. And So should we all. It's like sitting down to dinner in front of a proper place setting instead of leaning over the kitchen sink. Life has given us so much to appreciate and it's more than a cheeseburger.
Treating our food with thought and imagination is treating ourselves with respect. If we ate like we should, would we eat as much as we do? Any thoughts?
What about our children? They should be reared with the same care. They should be interested in food and what role it plays in our bodies, but alot of the time we are faced with, "no, I won't eat it all gone". Imagination and decoration. Sail a pickle boat on a sandwich, cuddle minted peas in a broiled mushroom cap that sports a cheese hat. Why not carve out a cucumber canoe and stuff it with chicken salad?
Enjoy our selection of tools and gadgets. Read a really interesting, get you all excited, cookbook. Products for young and older, comfortable and poor, yet priviledged, have been hand picked for your consideration and use. And always, always, Make It Almost Too Pretty To Eat.
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