This essay(?) / post feels like an entirely sensible, realistic retort to what the health industry has been doing to people's minds about food. Thank you!
Also, a couple spots that really stood out to me (among many):
- Coconut cultivation as: "groves full of practical miracles"
- "Practicality... has never meant absence of discernment... It has often meant knowing precisely where abundance is called for, where restraint is wise, and how to nourish a household generously without surrendering flavour, dignity, or health at the altar of performance."
VPep, you understood something I was hoping to articulate, perhaps better than I managed myself, that so much of our modern conversation around food has become strangely untethered from lived wisdom, memory, context, and the practical intelligence of households that fed generations well without the luxury of trend cycles or algorithmic panic. There is something deeply humbling to me in how traditional kitchens often held both abundance and restraint without turning either into ideology. Just discernment, memory, and care. I love how generously you have always supported and even in you most busiest always found time to give my humble efforts a heartfelt read ❤️
Before I met you, I'd only ever cooked with butter and olive oil as my fats. I had no idea what any oils were good for. Living with you, and learning from you, I've come to appreciate the nuance and relationships between the fats and the other ingredients - even if I don't know it all. You are the kitchen genius, as I like to say :)
This essay(?) / post feels like an entirely sensible, realistic retort to what the health industry has been doing to people's minds about food. Thank you!
Also, a couple spots that really stood out to me (among many):
- Coconut cultivation as: "groves full of practical miracles"
- "Practicality... has never meant absence of discernment... It has often meant knowing precisely where abundance is called for, where restraint is wise, and how to nourish a household generously without surrendering flavour, dignity, or health at the altar of performance."
Well said! Hurrah! Brava!
VPep, you understood something I was hoping to articulate, perhaps better than I managed myself, that so much of our modern conversation around food has become strangely untethered from lived wisdom, memory, context, and the practical intelligence of households that fed generations well without the luxury of trend cycles or algorithmic panic. There is something deeply humbling to me in how traditional kitchens often held both abundance and restraint without turning either into ideology. Just discernment, memory, and care. I love how generously you have always supported and even in you most busiest always found time to give my humble efforts a heartfelt read ❤️
Before I met you, I'd only ever cooked with butter and olive oil as my fats. I had no idea what any oils were good for. Living with you, and learning from you, I've come to appreciate the nuance and relationships between the fats and the other ingredients - even if I don't know it all. You are the kitchen genius, as I like to say :)
You may call me the kitchen genius, but you are the sharpness to my knives and you make me better, more inspired, more alive in everything I do. 💕