I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, I find it remarkable that more people don’t cook on a regular basis. There has even been the notion that cooking is no longer a survival response, in that, at least in some of the larger, American cities, cooking. There are many reasons to learn to cook that have nothing to do with survival.
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.
For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question “How can we eat?”, the second by the question “Why do we eat?” and the third by the question, “Where shall we have lunch?”
The Menu goes on to suggest that Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, would be a very agreeable and sophisticated answer to that third question.
-Source: The Restaurant at The End of the Universe, Douglas Adams.
Aside from the fact that I have always enjoyed good food led me to understand one thing (even without really knowing it at the time) Passion and Appetite are directly related. After growing up around videos of Eating Raoul (with a very young Robert Beltran, who is more commonly known as Chakotay, the first officer on Star Trek Voyager…. can you tell I’m a geek?) and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (which goes to show that rule 34 really does apply to everything) a paramour turned me onto, solidified the thinking that passion and appetite are inexerably linked. You with me so far? Good.
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