http://www.helladelicious.com/blog/quotes/2010/07/kitchen-education/ Local Food. Global Flavor. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.helladelicious.com/blog/quotes/2010/07/kitchen-education/comment-page-1/#comment-1517 The Feng Shui Cookbook |-| Hella Delicious Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:32:26 +0000 http://www.helladelicious.com/?p=277#comment-1517 [...] This is exactly the sort of cooking that we need to be doing today, with an open heart that touches the essence of the moment. After working for 17 years in professional kitchens around the world it has been sad to see how much this is missing in our industrial and commercial food systems. Often commercial kitchens are unhappy places, with petty competition and chefs on drugs because of working too many hours a day. It is no surprise that people living on food prepared in this manner are paranoid and irritable, a point which is made very well in my favorite quote from the Shaker Manifesto entitled Kitchen Education. [...] [...] This is exactly the sort of cooking that we need to be doing today, with an open heart that touches the essence of the moment. After working for 17 years in professional kitchens around the world it has been sad to see how much this is missing in our industrial and commercial food systems. Often commercial kitchens are unhappy places, with petty competition and chefs on drugs because of working too many hours a day. It is no surprise that people living on food prepared in this manner are paranoid and irritable, a point which is made very well in my favorite quote from the Shaker Manifesto entitled Kitchen Education. [...]

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