I remember going to university, and the people who'd left home for the first time looked at the food and were horrified. Whereas, my view was that if it was vaguely edible, then it's fine.
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A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.
Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
Most of my education has been around food.
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.
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