Lysander Florian Thornis
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Greetings to you, Zevic Siblings.
I am Lysander Florian Thornis, as known as Baron Hope Von Blossom. Today, we will discuss the relationship between food and art and how it should be.
But first, I would like to make a reminder. Food is a reflection of our cultures and one of the building blocks that shape them. It is one of our most important values that we must preserve. Everything is becoming globalised, and this is causing our cultures and colours to disappear. Please let us preserve our own food cultures.
The connection between art and food is this: food invites people to eat. How do we do this? By stimulating our senses. Because food directly appeals to our senses of sight, smell and taste. Its aesthetic and visually appealing structure (i.e. not just minimalist, but abundant and beautiful) appeals to our sense of sight, its smell appeals to our sense of smell, and its taste appeals to our sense of taste. Yes, you eat to satisfy your hunger, but food should also awaken a desire within you. It should entice you with its smell, encourage you to eat with its appearance, and, especially when you are hungry, make you want to eat again and again with its taste. After all, no one wants to eat food that doesn't look good, right?
It is also related to the virtue of beauty, which was ruled by Lady Astarte. Art is fundamentally concerned with beauty, and as the Great Teacher Plato said: ‘Beauty is proportion, harmony, and balance.’ A beautiful meal should be the same. All ingredients must be in a certain proportion and harmonious. Because ingredients cooked in an unbalanced or disproportionate way produce a very tasteless flavour and sometimes cannot even be considered food. In fact, it is essential that food is beautiful, gives pleasure to the person eating it and arouses great pleasure in them.
The connection between food and art lies in the way it invites people with its taste, smell and appearance and arouses pleasure in them. However, this does not mean that today's ‘chefs’ who think that minimalist presentations that look like they have come out of Michelin-starred restaurants' art galleries are aesthetically pleasing are right.
After cooking, food is served. In many restaurants, portioning is now minimalist and marketed as follows: ‘Food is not just about filling the stomach; it also captivates people aesthetically with a story, a stance and a view, and satisfies their soul.’ This is not entirely false, but while abundant and visually appealing food can indeed bring joy and inspire admiration, our approach should not be to present food as if it were a piece of art from a gallery. Because this is precisely what deceiving and exploiting people under the guise of ‘aesthetically pleasing food’ amounts to. In other words, food should not say to people: ‘I represent many art movements, I have a story to tell, and I look like I came out of a modern art gallery. You have to eat me and like me; you paid 50,000 TL, so you're a fool.’
At the same time, I believe that the insistence on minimalist presentation, the requirement that food look like it has been plucked from an art gallery, and the attempt to make it a concept accessible only to the very wealthy is entirely a Jewish endeavour.
That's all I have to say. I hope I have conveyed what I wanted to say correctly. I hope I haven't made any mistakes.
I hope you liked it.
I think fast food and the idea that ‘eating is a waste of time’ are also topics that need to be addressed.
Take care of yourselves.
May Gods' blessings be upon you all.
I am Lysander Florian Thornis, as known as Baron Hope Von Blossom. Today, we will discuss the relationship between food and art and how it should be.
But first, I would like to make a reminder. Food is a reflection of our cultures and one of the building blocks that shape them. It is one of our most important values that we must preserve. Everything is becoming globalised, and this is causing our cultures and colours to disappear. Please let us preserve our own food cultures.
The connection between art and food is this: food invites people to eat. How do we do this? By stimulating our senses. Because food directly appeals to our senses of sight, smell and taste. Its aesthetic and visually appealing structure (i.e. not just minimalist, but abundant and beautiful) appeals to our sense of sight, its smell appeals to our sense of smell, and its taste appeals to our sense of taste. Yes, you eat to satisfy your hunger, but food should also awaken a desire within you. It should entice you with its smell, encourage you to eat with its appearance, and, especially when you are hungry, make you want to eat again and again with its taste. After all, no one wants to eat food that doesn't look good, right?
It is also related to the virtue of beauty, which was ruled by Lady Astarte. Art is fundamentally concerned with beauty, and as the Great Teacher Plato said: ‘Beauty is proportion, harmony, and balance.’ A beautiful meal should be the same. All ingredients must be in a certain proportion and harmonious. Because ingredients cooked in an unbalanced or disproportionate way produce a very tasteless flavour and sometimes cannot even be considered food. In fact, it is essential that food is beautiful, gives pleasure to the person eating it and arouses great pleasure in them.
The connection between food and art lies in the way it invites people with its taste, smell and appearance and arouses pleasure in them. However, this does not mean that today's ‘chefs’ who think that minimalist presentations that look like they have come out of Michelin-starred restaurants' art galleries are aesthetically pleasing are right.
After cooking, food is served. In many restaurants, portioning is now minimalist and marketed as follows: ‘Food is not just about filling the stomach; it also captivates people aesthetically with a story, a stance and a view, and satisfies their soul.’ This is not entirely false, but while abundant and visually appealing food can indeed bring joy and inspire admiration, our approach should not be to present food as if it were a piece of art from a gallery. Because this is precisely what deceiving and exploiting people under the guise of ‘aesthetically pleasing food’ amounts to. In other words, food should not say to people: ‘I represent many art movements, I have a story to tell, and I look like I came out of a modern art gallery. You have to eat me and like me; you paid 50,000 TL, so you're a fool.’
At the same time, I believe that the insistence on minimalist presentation, the requirement that food look like it has been plucked from an art gallery, and the attempt to make it a concept accessible only to the very wealthy is entirely a Jewish endeavour.
That's all I have to say. I hope I have conveyed what I wanted to say correctly. I hope I haven't made any mistakes.
I hope you liked it.
I think fast food and the idea that ‘eating is a waste of time’ are also topics that need to be addressed.
Take care of yourselves.
May Gods' blessings be upon you all.
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