There is Food…and then there is Foodiness….Erica Wides hits the nail right on the head in this piece…and in her podcasts. (A weekly must listen for me for a while, she used to do the Chef Smartypants show. )
"Food is anything edible that at one time walked, swam, or flew, or that grew out of the ground, and has not been tampered with at all.
If it walked, swam, flew or grew out of the ground but has been altered in some way, or if it came straight out of a manufacturing plant, then it’s foodiness.
In a nutshell foodiness can be defined as something edible that is presented as if it’s food, but which in fact isn’t completely and totally food – or at least the food it claims to be."
WHAT IS FOOD? Food is anything edible that at one time walked, swam, or flew, or that grew out of the ground, and has not been tampered with at all. If it walked, swam, flew or grew out of the ground …
