In search of well prepared and well cooked meals

“Where ignorance is bliss it’s a folly to be wise.”

A very apt statement by Oscar Wilde in the 18^th century. 

The side effects of poor food processed foods, and poorly trained cooks only contributes to what we are going to be fighting in this century obesity. The side effect of burnt meats and its carcinogens which in the long term causing esophagus and stomach cancers. Because the meat is not properly butchered the fat content will be higher and therefore cause platelets to grow in our veins and cause heart attacks. The addition to chemicals to our seafood including our shrimp harvest has got to have a long-term effect on us all. If we continually eat like this by 2131 75% of our population will be obese, with the side effects of diabetes: cancers and other serious diseases. We just had an election where we had everybody screaming about Obama care and about its cost, but let us remind ourselves that the less use of healthcare insurance cut our costs down in the long term. So that is why I am hypercritical about these types of restaurants it is not only the damage they do to their own image the long-term damage they do to the dining population.  I’m not a vegetarian freak, I love a well-cooked steak but if steak is on the menu instead of that large baked potato I always have a great salad and a good glass of red wine.

I love seafood because I call it nature’s fast food it simple to cook you can impress at which her own style of seasonings and flavors and still have a wonderful meal and always begin with a great side  salad. So whether it be Eastgate Northside Southside or any other side I think it is time to make manufacturers and mostly ourselves accountable of what we offer to the dining public. I think we need to get back to the kiss factor or calling it cooking in simple steps providing great food for the dining public and release the stress that our service people seem to be forever dealing with customer’s complaints. I was in a restaurant the other night where eight people left a three dollar tip for $150 check what an insult to that server who I know to be very efficient and very polite and interacts with our customers in a friendly professional manner.

No wonder most of the people in the United States thinks that our professions are jobs we take while we go to college instead of looking at it as an honorable profession where everyone can learn a good living and provide for their families. Yesterday I cooked Thanksgiving dinner kept it simple roast the turkey on trivet make great gravy, real mashed potatoes steamed broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce and a great salad. A simple flavorful meal and most of all enjoying our family sitting around the table and talking and sharing with each other our family hopes for all our futures and sharing with eace other what a meal is all about love.

This is what dining is should be all about and when we go out to dine it should be for purpose of sharing each other’s hopes and experiences in a hospitable place with great food and great service. And not a place to stuff our faces with poorly cooked food with stressed out service people and pay for an overpriced meal.

I rest my case

Chef