Friday, February 1, 2008

food = art

Can you ever image that a chief’s dishes can be exhibit in five-yearly Documenta art show in Kassel, Germany – one of the biggest events in the world of contemporary art. Chief Adrià is one of the most famous chief in New York. Recently, he open a new restaurant call El Bulli. And it only open for the six month a year, it close at six winter months. In this six month, Adrià bring his fellow chiefs to their laboratory in Barcelona try to study the essence of the food and research more the possibility of the new food combination in experimental ways. That was a great adventure in food filed and which bring the food to new frontier.
In my point of view that I believe the food is fulfill with aesthetic feeling and it is indeed involved with the sense of beauty because like those French cuisine, the decoration of the dish just like a pieces of art work. And the in usual, the complete French dinner usually takes like 3 hours to slowly finish the food. While the client is enjoying the dinner, they also admire the aesthetic decoration of the dishes. In the other hand, some people are saying that the food can not regard as kind of art because they are saying that most of people thinks the taste of the food is depends on the cost level. In my point of view, I strongly disagree it. From the example that I previously mentioned I believe that the food already become the part of the modern art, nobody can deny it. And more and more chief are devoted themselves to find out what is the best for their clients and what can taste amazing. Moreover, the food is not only involves with the taste but also inherit a country’s tradition and culture. Nowadays, food means more than we thought before. Therefore, I think the cooking is already the essential part of our society.

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