Dinner Table

Wyatt Depuy

Mrs. Hoagland

Culinary II Period 3

Blog 4

The dinner table is a place for sharing your day’s adventures, talking about the sports game you played, and just spending time with the family. But what some people seem to look past is the true beauty of the food they consume.  Making dinner much more than throwing things on a plate and into the microwave, each dish needs to be sculpted. Chefs are artists in the kitchen and the pencil is each and every ingredient. To truly enjoy the food, one needs to respect the thought and effort put into every inch of the dish. In this country, we have lost the value to food. Thousands of years ago, a man would kill an animal to feed the village and they would celebrate. Distribute portions so carefully and thank the earth for its gifts. Now we each fast food to save time and stay in the car. This would be like looking at an art museum through the computer screen instead of going and seeing it with your own eyes.  Millions of people devote their lives to perfect each and every little aspect of the menu just to please us. The earth provides us with plentiful food and over thousands of years we have learned to bring out the beauty of such presents, yet now they are lost. Few really respect what has been given to us and more need to do so.  A dish is more than something to quickly scrap up in minutes, it needs care and effort to bring out the elegance it can bring. Food has the power to fulfill our hunger and serve as one of the most important and beautiful pieces of artwork given to us.