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A Chef's Philosophy
Two comments on Season 5 of Top Chef have given me pause to consider my own philosophy on food in general and meat in particular. Some readers, particularly if you have seen my posts over on Growers and Grocers may know that I do not eat meat. Granted, when I started it, it was for health reasons, but that does not mean I am entirely unaware or unmoved by the horrible conditions livestock live in before they die.But I"m not here to proselytize. I"m here to talk about head judge Tom Colicchio and Fabio, one of the show"s contestants. But before I do, I felt it important to frame the discussion so that it would make more sense why their comments struck me as powerfully as they did.
Up until Episode 7, every time I had ever heard a non-vegan chef speak about food, meat was a "thing." It might be a tasty thing, but it was always slave to a dish. In all my culinary education and in all the countless hours of culinary television I had watched, I had never heard a non-veg chef pay homage to the fact that the meat was once a living, breathing thing. I have read a few books that talk about this idea, but no instructor of mine had ever said anything remotely like that.
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