Thursday, November 19, 2015

Food: Why no Why?

There are a lot of questions when it comes to food.

"How long do I have to cook this for?"

"Is this organic?"

"Does this fish taco smell funny to you?"

"Mom, when will that burger find its way from the grill and into my mouth?"

However, with all these questions, it seems no one really asks the why of it all. Why do we eat this particular meal, where did it come from, and why did people originally put this combination together?

It seems fitting that this post mark the very first post on Behind the Bread, a blog dedicated to highlighting the history behind each dish and discovering why it has ended up being eaten by millions throughout the years.



While more and more people are questioning where the actual ingredients in each dish are coming from, no one examines why those ingredients go into a dish. So, why no why?

The history of food is likely one of the few histories that the world may want to repeat. Great innovation has come from just tossing things together. However, chefs today learn more from the science behind flavor. This has made the history of food somewhat irrelevant. No one needs to know how someone discovered the combonation came to taste good and thus ingrained in a culture, they only want to know why ingreidents taste good together so they can make the next food breakthorough.

Unfortunately, it seems the brilliance of our ancestors is destined to be forgotten, but not here.

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