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| Diner Stuff digital image from Metro Diner in Oak Cliff |
I have a difficult time seeing food as Art.
A job as a professional cook is a highly skilled and difficult profession - although the average pay of a kitchen worker has not reflected that fact. A chef, the person running the kitchen, is one of the most stressfull positions I have seen.
It's not the skill involved.
For me, Art is contemplated and meditated on, away from the loud noise of marketing and machines. Food is found in the middle of a massive marketing scheme. There is no contemplation, only consumption and desire.
Food is a part of life. It's power is in the primal animal side of humanity, not in the intellectual pursuit of Art.
That is why.