Love food

Let’s start off with the fact that significant changes have been going on in the gastronomy world. With this article, I’d like to give you a brief overview on where gastronomy came from, to give you an impression, but more important, to discuss the drastic changes within the last fifty years.

The existing of “gastronomy” all started 5,000 B.C. in Greece and due to handling routes, crusades and cross-border marriages between royalties resulted in the European wide spreading of gastronomy. So after the first notice of gastronomy in Greece, the Roman Empire and England, the existence of gastronomy as we know it, was started in France.

Now, with a tiny bit of background on gastronomy, I’d like to discuss the following: “Why have we gone from loving food, to fearing it” (Mallet, G. 2004).

First, with quoting the first sentence from the documentary Food Inc “The Way we eat changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000” and taking this drastic change in food supply into consideration (WSWS, 2015). I’m convinced that it is fair to say that: we are what we eat, but we don’t know what we’re eating. To explain why the gross of the people fear food instead of loving it, I’d like to make myself clear with several arguments:

We’re getting used to being scammed, we’re not surprised anymore when vanilla extract is being made from beaver sperm or when there is only 0,05 grams processed dried truffle in the “Bertolli truffle and cream sauce” (KVW, 2015).

This scamming all started after WWII, when people were recovering from the war and were glad that serious problems like food shortage were over. Back then, industrial agriculture was praised as the technological development that would change the world and which would give the world’s population the opportunity to feed itself (uscusa, 2015).

Industrial agriculture however, got seriously out of