Why Aren’t You A Foodie
Few people appreciate food they eat every day. The rich usually complain about a shortage of time and the idle might use a lack of money as an excuse. However, “foodies” don’t just have more time and money. The key difference between “foodies” and others is their attitude to food: “foodies” are interested in food whereas others are in need of food. Socioeconomic status has little to do appreciation of food. What really matters is what food means to a person.
Those successful businessmen always attribute their ignorance of delightful dinner to a lack of time. They are wealthy but they are also under the stress of a large workload. As the saying goes, time is money. For those business giants, spending quality time on food not only means paying for food, but also means losing money from the business point of view. As a result, they aren’t bothered to use their taste buds even though they can afford a luxurious meal. My neighbor told me that her father ate at home no more than twice a week, and always finished his meal as soon as he can to get rid of the dining table.
On the other hand, not many of the idle, who have more leisure time to think creatively about the next meal, are foodies either. Appetizing meals only stay in their minds because they usually don’t make much money to carry out those thoughtful ideas. Not only is dining in top restaurant expensive, but getting excellent ingredients for a dish also costs a lot. Eventually, they give up chasing appealing taste and instead get used to lifeless dishes. Many of my friends are in this situation. The dining hall is a tragedy to them but they keep visiting it because they already paid for the whole semester. Some of them even eat five times a day in the dining hall because of their unlimited meal plans.
The rich don’t have time whereas the idle are short of money. They seem like perfect reasons and that there would be no one appreciating food. Obviously, that is not true. Time and money are not constrictions to be a foodie. One can always be interested in food regardless his or her socioeconomic status.
It is a pretext that one has no time to appreciate food. Making a reservation for a lovely meal or enjoying a delish dish doesn’t take a long time compared to the pleasure it brings. Even preparing a meal on one’s own could be a delectable experience. The cooking show, 30 minutes meal shows that a yummy dish could be done within 30 minutes. Appreciating food is not a time-consuming task, but a way to take a breath. The problem lays on the businessmen’s attitude towards food. They look upon food as something recharges them but not something pleases them. Some of them might be as ignorant as to appraise having meals is an inevitably task and only worth 20 minutes to complete, others might be as lazy as to think tasting food takes up the energy used to contemplate business affairs. In one sentence, Food is just necessity for them rather than something worthy to spend time on.
Having no money is also song and dance for not appreciating food. A memorable meal doesn’t have to be costly. Expensive dishes must have its reason to be an arm and a leg, but delicious doesn’t always lead to high price. The Chinese snack, Dim Sum, is such a good example. Many types of Dim Sum are invented by probably the poorest people in China and served at reasonable price on the side of streets. One tenth of the money spent at extravagant restaurants delivers the same pleasant. Fancy ingredients, like what cooks use in the cooking show Iron Chef, may not be available for a daily meal, but getting up early to have the first pick at the market will always be rewarded the most fresh ingredient. Since they are just in need of food, people are reasoning their laziness of exploring for food and ingredients by the pale saying, I have no money.
One’s socioeconomic status can’t stop love for food. Time and money are just the cover for people who don’t appreciate food. Underneath that, the constriction of being a “foodie” lies on the attitude towards food, which means what role is food playing in one’s life?
Since an expensive dish is not a big deal for them, the rich usually take a table of fancy for granted. An unforgettable taste is the reward of a large amount of money they spend. A delicious meal deserves a great pay rather than appreciation, and what they have is just the happiness of spending money rather than the joy of food. Food for them is a symbol of wealth. Such a view makes them only see the price on the menu. Efforts and creation of cook’s beneath those attractive images has no position in their minds. They are never going to understand how delicate a dish is and why they worth such a price, not to mention to appreciate food.
Even with mouths full of satisfactions, those businessmen probably pay more attention to the business they are talking about. For example, playing golf is never about sports, it is about having business. A meal is never about food to them. Having shining dishes is just a manner to talk about business. Those giants care what comes out of other’s mouth but not what is in their own. I know it from my own experience. I went to my dad’s business meals many times when I was a little kid. Those uncles always ordered the top dishes on the menu, and the most interesting thing is none of them are really eating. They are talking about business all the time. I was so happy to take advantage of that and ate more than I could every time.
The idle are always careless with daily dishes because they think it would make any better if they process them carefully. They regard cooking as making something edible. No matter what has been done on the potato, it still tastes as a plate of potato. Thoughts on those dishes are just wasting time, which could be used to earn more money and get better ingredients. However, this is totally wrong. On one episode of iron chef, two top cooks were required to use milk as main ingredient to serve a meal. I had never ever thought about using things as simple as milk to cook before, but both of them impressed me by eight creative milk dishes. The commonness of milk can’t conceal the beauty of those inventions.
Pay too much attention to taste is always a bad habit among the idle. They know they are not going to having top dishes on the menu so they decide to at least get something palatable. Food to them was not a factor improving their living standard, but just satisfaction of mouth. However, Healthy ways of cooking is not in the way of deliciousness. They are simply too lazy to seek for both healthy and delicious food. My mom is a foodie with respect to healthy diet. She always remembers which kinds of food can’t be cooked together and always makes efforts to create healthy dishes with delicate taste.
There is no doubt that time and money are needed for appreciating food. However, most people are not really in a shortage of time and money. They just value others things over food. To appreciate food, we don’t have to be like those professional food critics whose job is eating around and all the time and money to do so. We can simply be interested in food. We might read restaurant reviews on newspaper and try to find a nice place to dine in once a week, or we can choose switch sports channel to cooking shows to learn a new dish. All these ways are leading us to appreciation of food once we are enthusiastic about food.
“Foodies” are not different from others in terms of socioeconomic status, however, they hold different attitude towards food. Food to others may be a ten-minute routine, stuff taking care of hunger, a symbol of wealth, a way of talking about business, satisfaction of mouth, but to foodies, that the happiness of lives. Time and money are not problems in foodie’s world. Spending time looking for healthy and simple dishes has become an essential part of recuperating for the next day. Food is fair to give happiness to all people who appreciate it. We can’t easily change time and money we have, but we can decide how to spend them. The key is one’s attitude towards food, moreover, one’s attitude towards life.
Those successful businessmen always attribute their ignorance of delightful dinner to a lack of time. They are wealthy but they are also under the stress of a large workload. As the saying goes, time is money. For those business giants, spending quality time on food not only means paying for food, but also means losing money from the business point of view. As a result, they aren’t bothered to use their taste buds even though they can afford a luxurious meal. My neighbor told me that her father ate at home no more than twice a week, and always finished his meal as soon as he can to get rid of the dining table.
On the other hand, not many of the idle, who have more leisure time to think creatively about the next meal, are foodies either. Appetizing meals only stay in their minds because they usually don’t make much money to carry out those thoughtful ideas. Not only is dining in top restaurant expensive, but getting excellent ingredients for a dish also costs a lot. Eventually, they give up chasing appealing taste and instead get used to lifeless dishes. Many of my friends are in this situation. The dining hall is a tragedy to them but they keep visiting it because they already paid for the whole semester. Some of them even eat five times a day in the dining hall because of their unlimited meal plans.
The rich don’t have time whereas the idle are short of money. They seem like perfect reasons and that there would be no one appreciating food. Obviously, that is not true. Time and money are not constrictions to be a foodie. One can always be interested in food regardless his or her socioeconomic status.
It is a pretext that one has no time to appreciate food. Making a reservation for a lovely meal or enjoying a delish dish doesn’t take a long time compared to the pleasure it brings. Even preparing a meal on one’s own could be a delectable experience. The cooking show, 30 minutes meal shows that a yummy dish could be done within 30 minutes. Appreciating food is not a time-consuming task, but a way to take a breath. The problem lays on the businessmen’s attitude towards food. They look upon food as something recharges them but not something pleases them. Some of them might be as ignorant as to appraise having meals is an inevitably task and only worth 20 minutes to complete, others might be as lazy as to think tasting food takes up the energy used to contemplate business affairs. In one sentence, Food is just necessity for them rather than something worthy to spend time on.
Having no money is also song and dance for not appreciating food. A memorable meal doesn’t have to be costly. Expensive dishes must have its reason to be an arm and a leg, but delicious doesn’t always lead to high price. The Chinese snack, Dim Sum, is such a good example. Many types of Dim Sum are invented by probably the poorest people in China and served at reasonable price on the side of streets. One tenth of the money spent at extravagant restaurants delivers the same pleasant. Fancy ingredients, like what cooks use in the cooking show Iron Chef, may not be available for a daily meal, but getting up early to have the first pick at the market will always be rewarded the most fresh ingredient. Since they are just in need of food, people are reasoning their laziness of exploring for food and ingredients by the pale saying, I have no money.
One’s socioeconomic status can’t stop love for food. Time and money are just the cover for people who don’t appreciate food. Underneath that, the constriction of being a “foodie” lies on the attitude towards food, which means what role is food playing in one’s life?
Since an expensive dish is not a big deal for them, the rich usually take a table of fancy for granted. An unforgettable taste is the reward of a large amount of money they spend. A delicious meal deserves a great pay rather than appreciation, and what they have is just the happiness of spending money rather than the joy of food. Food for them is a symbol of wealth. Such a view makes them only see the price on the menu. Efforts and creation of cook’s beneath those attractive images has no position in their minds. They are never going to understand how delicate a dish is and why they worth such a price, not to mention to appreciate food.
Even with mouths full of satisfactions, those businessmen probably pay more attention to the business they are talking about. For example, playing golf is never about sports, it is about having business. A meal is never about food to them. Having shining dishes is just a manner to talk about business. Those giants care what comes out of other’s mouth but not what is in their own. I know it from my own experience. I went to my dad’s business meals many times when I was a little kid. Those uncles always ordered the top dishes on the menu, and the most interesting thing is none of them are really eating. They are talking about business all the time. I was so happy to take advantage of that and ate more than I could every time.
The idle are always careless with daily dishes because they think it would make any better if they process them carefully. They regard cooking as making something edible. No matter what has been done on the potato, it still tastes as a plate of potato. Thoughts on those dishes are just wasting time, which could be used to earn more money and get better ingredients. However, this is totally wrong. On one episode of iron chef, two top cooks were required to use milk as main ingredient to serve a meal. I had never ever thought about using things as simple as milk to cook before, but both of them impressed me by eight creative milk dishes. The commonness of milk can’t conceal the beauty of those inventions.
Pay too much attention to taste is always a bad habit among the idle. They know they are not going to having top dishes on the menu so they decide to at least get something palatable. Food to them was not a factor improving their living standard, but just satisfaction of mouth. However, Healthy ways of cooking is not in the way of deliciousness. They are simply too lazy to seek for both healthy and delicious food. My mom is a foodie with respect to healthy diet. She always remembers which kinds of food can’t be cooked together and always makes efforts to create healthy dishes with delicate taste.
There is no doubt that time and money are needed for appreciating food. However, most people are not really in a shortage of time and money. They just value others things over food. To appreciate food, we don’t have to be like those professional food critics whose job is eating around and all the time and money to do so. We can simply be interested in food. We might read restaurant reviews on newspaper and try to find a nice place to dine in once a week, or we can choose switch sports channel to cooking shows to learn a new dish. All these ways are leading us to appreciation of food once we are enthusiastic about food.
“Foodies” are not different from others in terms of socioeconomic status, however, they hold different attitude towards food. Food to others may be a ten-minute routine, stuff taking care of hunger, a symbol of wealth, a way of talking about business, satisfaction of mouth, but to foodies, that the happiness of lives. Time and money are not problems in foodie’s world. Spending time looking for healthy and simple dishes has become an essential part of recuperating for the next day. Food is fair to give happiness to all people who appreciate it. We can’t easily change time and money we have, but we can decide how to spend them. The key is one’s attitude towards food, moreover, one’s attitude towards life.
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