EAT, COOK, LOVE

In my foods class, we have just finished watching a CBC Doc Zone called Eat, Cook, Love. It is all about how we can recreate a relationship with food. People are starting to eat only because they have to, not because they want to. Food is beginning to be viewed as something negative for many reasons, such as it can cause obesity. This documentary mentions some places around the world that are trying to control what the people intake. For example, in New York, they wanted to reduce the salt levels because 8 out of 10 people intake more salt than their daily recommendation. So they tried to ban salt in restaurants. In Japan, there is now an obesity tax and Foiegras, which is duck, is now illegal to serve in the United States. These are a few examples of how people are trying to control what the people in our world eat and try to limit our personal choice. In Eat, Cook, Love, they convey their message which is that it is important to have personal choice, which comes along with personal responsibility. This means that it is important to have choices such as what you want to eat. There shouldn't be any restrictions on what you can and can't have. It is your responsibility to make the right choices for yourself on what you want to eat and how much you want to eat the government should not be in control of that. Furthermore, this documentary encourages us to recreate a relationship with food. They provide a great example, which is the Mediterranean diet. This diet is part of the peoples heritage and the recipes are passed down through generations. If these traditions are not passed down then they will be lost. Therefore, it creates a relationship between people and food. Secondly, in Las Vegas, there is a restaurant called the Heart Attack Grill. The chef there strives to corrupt the American diet by delivering nutritional corruption. These two examples demonstrate how we should all eat because we want to eat, develop a positive relationship with food and make our own choices about what we want to eat. This documentary has inspired me to do just that!