Recently I found a novel online, which happens to be about food. The novel tells a story that an Chinese god changes into a shopkeeper of a restaurant and cooks for general people so that she can get people's desires in return.As this story happens in the ancient time, the dishes are all made by ancient skills. Dishes are made from petals, leaves, herbs, rice, and even snow. The story is romantic but also historical. Those materials are all natural and healthy, especially when compared to what we eat nowadays.
As Pollan metioned in his book, don't eat what your grandmother didn't regard as food, those cuisines in the novel totally accord with his view. No pesticide, no processing, and no chemicals. Admittedly, ancient people ate more healthy cause they didn't have the "high technique" to make food "nutritious".
Nowadays, we have to eat those processed food and cannot find truly natural materials for food. This novel provides me with a elegant world with simple food that I really look forward.
That sounds like an interesting novel, but yes as time goes by we just eat less and less healthy. And we all know Pollan just pushes and pushes that fact.
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I don't think it's ancient people who choose to eat healtht. They are just limited to what they could possibly have. Like apes almost eat everything raw, but as soon as they learn how to cook and process food, they cook and process food, and they look this as an advanced way to eat. So I don't agree that we are choosing to eat ubhealthy now.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Wade. Just because Pollan says something is bad does not necessarily make it bad. We choose what we want to eat now, while people in the past did not have a choice. Also, we as a global community need to be able to make food quickly and cheaply, or people will literally starve.
ReplyDeleteWhy have i never heared this nover before? Basically, I agree with Wade and Logan that it's not that the ancient people just want to eat healthy and make the food unprocessed, they just don't have the cooking techniques to cook them
ReplyDeletei agree with that but during our grandparents time, they ate good food and had a healthy life style .i mean they had to do a lot of physical labour, much more than what we do ..but if we continue eating what we eat and have our grandparents lifestyle we probably wouldnt be so unhealthy.
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