May the food be with you
Several weeks of MasterChef Season 13 are done. I saw Season 12 Back to Win through to the end. Perhaps lockdown helped. Perhaps it was the skill and knowledge of the past participants or was it the new judging panel - empathetic, kind, empowering. Or that I wanted to see hope for the future of food and our food culture after closing my food business a year before. This season I am seeing things differently. The world has changed and we need to be honest with how we are living and creating a future we want. For me it starts with the hours I won't be spending in front of the TV having the life force sucked out of me. I’ll be channeling that into other creative pursuits. Like a small allotment at the local community garden, some study and continuing the food traditions in my household by cooking for my family while building our collective food literacy. Yes I still have a few things to learn - I want to improve my pickling and pr...