Referring to the post at: http://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/talking-trust-and-sustainability-new-orleans
I appreciate both the subject of the post as expressed in the link URI as well as the sensualness of the picture posted on Facebook.
While it is likely that I am missing sufficent relevant detailed sources, there seems to be a lack of a robustness in the discussion posted.
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We work hard to invite a diverse group of people and perspectives. We have chefs, of course, and farmers. We invite folks from municipal and state government offices, urban planners, academics, people who work in food distribution, folks working on community gardens, and in nonprofit, social justice, and food equity organizations. We've had clammers, restaurateurs, marine biologists, and geneticists. We try to include people representing large food companies, too. The idea is to bring as many distinct opinions to the table to have an open dialogue so that we can begin to understand the complexity of the issues people face. The nature of the group changes from location to location, obviously, but the goal of diversity is always important.
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This seems to be the only obvious reflection that food is not just about sensuality and isolated art form.
In fact, food along with architecture and language, is one of the basic forms of art representative of human creativity. Perhaps ironically, these are also derived from human activities that try to solve fundamental human needs that could be seen as very far removed from high art.
I was disappointed to not see a more comprehensive and perhaps continuing discussion on the topic at the URI posted earlier.
On a more personally biased mode, I wonder, given the profession from which I earn my pay, is it possible that spending much of a lifetime trying to teach a grain of sand (silicon) to follow instructions and report back might not be seen in the same light.
I don't think food related arts would be seen in the same light, since these still require repeated human interventions and while being similar to other performance arts in that they need to be executed repeatedly by people, they also share a characteristic expected of the silicon 'arts' in that the viewers expect the performances to be consistently repeatable. That is hard!
And I have not yet begun to talk about sustainability et al! :)
I appreciate both the subject of the post as expressed in the link URI as well as the sensualness of the picture posted on Facebook.
While it is likely that I am missing sufficent relevant detailed sources, there seems to be a lack of a robustness in the discussion posted.
"...
We work hard to invite a diverse group of people and perspectives. We have chefs, of course, and farmers. We invite folks from municipal and state government offices, urban planners, academics, people who work in food distribution, folks working on community gardens, and in nonprofit, social justice, and food equity organizations. We've had clammers, restaurateurs, marine biologists, and geneticists. We try to include people representing large food companies, too. The idea is to bring as many distinct opinions to the table to have an open dialogue so that we can begin to understand the complexity of the issues people face. The nature of the group changes from location to location, obviously, but the goal of diversity is always important.
..."
This seems to be the only obvious reflection that food is not just about sensuality and isolated art form.
In fact, food along with architecture and language, is one of the basic forms of art representative of human creativity. Perhaps ironically, these are also derived from human activities that try to solve fundamental human needs that could be seen as very far removed from high art.
I was disappointed to not see a more comprehensive and perhaps continuing discussion on the topic at the URI posted earlier.
On a more personally biased mode, I wonder, given the profession from which I earn my pay, is it possible that spending much of a lifetime trying to teach a grain of sand (silicon) to follow instructions and report back might not be seen in the same light.
I don't think food related arts would be seen in the same light, since these still require repeated human interventions and while being similar to other performance arts in that they need to be executed repeatedly by people, they also share a characteristic expected of the silicon 'arts' in that the viewers expect the performances to be consistently repeatable. That is hard!
And I have not yet begun to talk about sustainability et al! :)
