Politically Hungry America
America’s hunger and appetite is metaphorically exemplified by the public’s obsession of where foodie President Obama and his wife Michele eat out. How’s this for a healthy political appetite: pizza in Saint Louis, pancakes in Pittsburg, soul food in Chicago, and chili dogs and cheese fries in Washington? But, hey, that’s America and that’s what it takes to get elected and hold onto high popularity ratings while America is starving. Any wonder Gourmet magazine, long considered the Grande Dame and dean of culinary publishing went out of business? What is more amazing, is that P.F. Chang’s simple Chinese recipe for profits, actually features ingredients that wouldn’t be found in Chinese restaurants, like chocolate, cheese, melon balls and that the “P.F.” stands for company founder Paul Fleming. A smart Yankee that others should take note of, especially career politicians in Washington.
China certainly offers America ─ and the world it leads ─ the most diversified, phenomenal and constantly changing cutting edge nourishing and delicious cuisine. The same holds true on the political front. China is again moving to center stage as it returns to the historical norm in which it is the world’s largest economy as it was for 1,800 years. The New World Disorder created by America needs to be reorganize with a fused Chinese recipe.
Chinese recipes are very healthy ─ yes I know about MSG, but having been raised on the Mediterranean diet, I also know and appreciate the pure organic taste of exotic Chinese dishes. I am constantly disappointed and angered when I dine in Chinese restaurants in America and experience America’s food fusion movement’s Americanizing Chinese food in an unhealthy way. As more Americans go Chinese with their dietary appetites, my hope is their hunger to better understand China is also satisfied and that China’s rich history, culture, capitalist and political development is correctly digested.
The time for a new eating and political order in America is long overdue.
Let’s start with food for now. Dr. David Kessler, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has no kudos for mass-produced American cuisine. He is highly critical for its nutritional imperialism. Americans steal Asian cuisines, import them with fanfare, and then absolutely destroy them with harmful additions and additives. He trashes Americans’ penchant for large quantities of mayonnaise-topped tempura shrimp wrapped evilly in rice as a faux sushi roll. He says Americans imperialize so many world cuisines that they should be ashamed of themselves. “American Chinese food is not Chinese,” he complains. I agree wholeheartedly. The classic dish General Tso’s chicken, after mass-Americanization, is poisoned with sugar: “Hunan cuisine is not sweet,” Kessler rails. The same applies to Chinese politics which is misrepresented in America.
Fast-Chinese-food chains like Panda Express, corrupt otherwise healthy Chinese dishes with piles of sugar and fat. Across America, trendy fused pan-Chinese restaurants, well marketed and much ballyhooed by the media systematically slaughter every cuisine they touch.
Fusion cuisine, like fusion geopolitics, can be good for everyone’s health, but only depending on how skillfully and carefully it is all put together. The trick is to take the best of China and combine it with the best of America. Continue going the other way around ─ with the worst of America ─ and you have a major mishmash and nutritional meltdown. Much like the economic and financial meltdown-tsunami the world has been force-fed by Washington politicians and their bankers.
China certainly offers America ─ and the world it leads ─ the most diversified, phenomenal and constantly changing cutting edge nourishing and delicious cuisine. The same holds true on the political front. China is again moving to center stage as it returns to the historical norm in which it is the world’s largest economy as it was for 1,800 years. The New World Disorder created by America needs to be reorganize with a fused Chinese recipe.
Chinese recipes are very healthy ─ yes I know about MSG, but having been raised on the Mediterranean diet, I also know and appreciate the pure organic taste of exotic Chinese dishes. I am constantly disappointed and angered when I dine in Chinese restaurants in America and experience America’s food fusion movement’s Americanizing Chinese food in an unhealthy way. As more Americans go Chinese with their dietary appetites, my hope is their hunger to better understand China is also satisfied and that China’s rich history, culture, capitalist and political development is correctly digested.
The time for a new eating and political order in America is long overdue.
Let’s start with food for now. Dr. David Kessler, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has no kudos for mass-produced American cuisine. He is highly critical for its nutritional imperialism. Americans steal Asian cuisines, import them with fanfare, and then absolutely destroy them with harmful additions and additives. He trashes Americans’ penchant for large quantities of mayonnaise-topped tempura shrimp wrapped evilly in rice as a faux sushi roll. He says Americans imperialize so many world cuisines that they should be ashamed of themselves. “American Chinese food is not Chinese,” he complains. I agree wholeheartedly. The classic dish General Tso’s chicken, after mass-Americanization, is poisoned with sugar: “Hunan cuisine is not sweet,” Kessler rails. The same applies to Chinese politics which is misrepresented in America.
Fast-Chinese-food chains like Panda Express, corrupt otherwise healthy Chinese dishes with piles of sugar and fat. Across America, trendy fused pan-Chinese restaurants, well marketed and much ballyhooed by the media systematically slaughter every cuisine they touch.
Fusion cuisine, like fusion geopolitics, can be good for everyone’s health, but only depending on how skillfully and carefully it is all put together. The trick is to take the best of China and combine it with the best of America. Continue going the other way around ─ with the worst of America ─ and you have a major mishmash and nutritional meltdown. Much like the economic and financial meltdown-tsunami the world has been force-fed by Washington politicians and their bankers.
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