/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>the only good ethical response to having to kill other animals to eat is putting the energy we get from them to good use

>and to respect them by cooking them to perfection

That's deep, man. Like, no shit, actually deep.

How to make food a semi-religious practice, thereby making your meals all the better.

Favorite line:

>instant coffee is your punishment for not taking the time to brew it to perfection

>>10301

This is fantastic stuff, anon. Where did you find it?

Cooking is serious business.

>>10302

>Where did you find it?

By being a giant Alan Watts fanboi and subscribing to about twenty channels that regularly upload clips of his hundreds of hours of lectures, seminars, sermons, whatever you want to call them.

First time I've heard him turn his spiritual/philosophical cutlery on the arts of cooking and eating.

Inspired by these two lectures, today (instead of just mindlessly and quickly munching on whatever I have while I play around on the Internet or whatever like I always do) I decided to try eating with reverence – since I already batch-cooked everything for the week (/fit/izen reporting) I'll have to save the respectful, spiritual chef-fun for the next.

I got my big Tupperware of salad (kale, cauliflower, broccoli, tomato, bell pepper), my peanut-butter-jam-honey on homemade bodybuilder bread sammiches that I forgot to bring to work with me today, all the different flavored mustards I got some time ago, and on the way home even picked up a bottle of black-cherry- and blueberry-flavored pinot noir just for today, intending to drink it all classy-like as explained in detail in one of the above videos (in short: fill the flute about 1/3 to 1/2 the way, be sure to breathe deeply the scents and the sights of the dark liquid and its bubbles and such, sip slowly…).

I took all my stuff to my rarely-used sofa and sat next to my open window and ate everything slowly, paying attention only to what was in my mouth at that moment, savoring the flavors. Found that, after putting a spritz of mustard on my fork and spearing a floret of cauliflower or broccoli, a few pieces of diced bell pepper makes a decent pallet cleanser. Also found that eating a few bites of my homemade bread made the wine taste foul. But after a few extra sips the wine tasted fine again.

After spending over a half-hour doing nothing but eating, drinking, and listening to the outdoors, I rested with my eyes closed for several moments to really feel how stuffed I was. Then I spent the next ten to fifteen reading the book of Ecclesiastes until I felt the bloating go down enough to put dishes, mustard bottles, and wine away (I only drank ~1/3 the bottle).

I'm going to have to do this again with future meals, that was fun and relaxing! Truly good to appreciate the transfiguration of what used to be breathing creatures into a part of myself, beings that have died for me so that I may yet live, thereby one must treat their sacrifice with the honor and dignity it deserves else they have died in vain.

>>10308

>Pinot Noir, PB&J, Cauliflower and kale Salad with bell pepppers & mustard

Ah, it appears we have a true connoisseur among us.

>>10312

You're forgetting the honey - the most crucial part of the experience.

Seriously, I forget what the term "milk and honey" is generally used for, but that doesn't mean shit because it's actually a phenomenal drink, especially during the summer. Personally, I think it's best if the milk is in that in-between of room temperature and chilled. For best results, drink it in your backyard, shirtless.

Starting around 6:24 (after ranting about how there's really no such thing as foreign locales anymore thanks to fast travel) for several minutes he goes on to explain why most restaurants suck.

Funny that this lecture was recorded somewhere between 1940 to 1960, and things have apparently only gotten worse in the half-century interim.