Food as…
Popular chef/TV personality/author/world travel/general asshole Anthony Bourdain said once on his show that inside every great chef is a Chinese chef. Although he has a great tendency to fetishize both the perceived simplicity and, I guess, non-American-ness of Asian foods, I think the sentiment of this particular statement is pretty right on.
Bourdain means to say Chinese chefs don’t waste any part of the animal. Fish eyeballs, pig’s feet, rooster testicles: it’s all been cooked for thousands of years. And that’s not just the Chinese of course, it’s true all over the world, pretty much anywhere where food isn’t so removed from its original form.
It’s mostly just in this country where beef doesn’t come from a cow, it comes from the freezer.
But while connecting to food is great, it doesn’t replace connecting with people. So I’m putting this trailer up here to give my man Leonard some shine. He’s working on a film that reflects on just those issues.
So all you wealthy BPR readers out there, give the dude some cash to help him finish making this movie! Check his site out at kitchenstink.com.
Have Food Will Travel: Pearl River Delta from Leonard on Vimeo.
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