American’s Obsession
American’s obsess over food as we collectively gain weight. (P.S. not me over Thanksgiving i lost 1 lb) I found this interesting article in the New York Times about how people from LA/Hollywood will come into the most posh high end restaurants and order their food not the way it’s supposed to be cooked.
This happens to be the highlight of the article for me.
“It is a contradiction not lost on the city’s food purveyors. ‘People in this town have a terrible definition of what they are,’ says Eric Greenspan, the owner and chef of the Foundry on Melrose in Hollywood. ‘They spend their whole lives obsessing over a healthy body, so they come to a restaurant like mine and order their salmon steamed and then wake up at 2 a.m. and go to Tommy’s and get chili cheese fries.’
Greenspan’s analysis of this Hollywood phenomenon is part chemistry — people don’t really know what they are eating — and part psychology. ‘If their souls were satisfied,’ he reasons, ‘they would be eating the salmon the way it should it be ordered.”
If you think about it this is how America thinks how we act on all sorts of levels not just food. We snub what we should be experiencing and dumb down the order, only to stick our fingers in the honey pot when we think no one is looking.
You can read the entire article here.
