Jay Rayner on the politics of food
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- čas přidán 22. 09. 2021
- Jay Rayner is a journalist, food critic and author, best known for his entertaining food and drink criticism and gastronomic publications (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
His latest book, Chewing the Fat, is a collection of some of his columns, digging deep into the world of food.
In this Ways to Change the World he talks to Krishnan about how politics and culture reflect and influence our eating habits - and reveals his lesser-known love and talent for jazz music.
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He's one of my heroes.
Fascinating indeed.
I'm not sure I agree with Jay's view on why the brits are so enamoured of being above the parapet when it comes to restaurants. It has nothing to do with the industrialisation of food production in WWII and everything to do with that classically British sense of snobbism. Most of the folks that I know who visited these "fine dining' restaurants do it as much if not more - for the bragging factor and instagram-posting obsession of "ooh - look where I've just been" than for a genuine sense and understanding of what simple good food ought to be about.
Walk down any street in an average British city and what you will see is a cavalcade of BMWs and Mercedes Benzes, sitting in front of awfully-dissected semis in which there are 5 or 10 people living in badly-furnished hovels. Most important, however, is their 'Beemer' parked outside - even though they can barely afford to live like a member of the human race.
The same is the case with the peculiarly British snobbism about going to eat in such-a-such's 'latest' restaurant concept or another.
Coming from an Italian family, I grew up on the best food in the world, and it was good, hearty, healthy, tasty and down-to-earth fare. And THAT is how food is mean to be. My favourite cuisines are Persian, Lebanese, Thai and of course, REAL Italian - ALL cuisines that specialise in straight down the line good, simple (often) and healthy fare. Food is NOT a social statement - unless one is British, of course.
Looks like our Deal is! that Our Country has now become its own worst enemy. Thanks Phil 🙏
And here was me expecting a discussion about the ethical, environmental and health impacts of the food system.
Apparently Jay Rayner has no interest in these central issues.
Especially food waste. Quite literally, supermarkets/superstores could feed millions if they just gave away the food that was still edible, that they couldn't/didn't sell and were throwing away anyway. Its actually rather sinister; you can find reports of police (in the US at least) defending food being throw away, from homeless/poor people who just wanted to eat it.
Seriously, they're throwing food away that they don't want or can't sell and REFUSE to give it to actually hungry people. Its some kind of Dickensian nightmare.
You could try reading his articles and find out how wrong you are about Jay Rayner.
@@satyasyasatyasya5746 Not just supermarkets, there was this old lady in the same building where I rented a flat in London, she worked at M&S at the end of the day one of her jobs was to take the unsold sandwiches etc out of their packets put them into a bin bag and pour an ink like liquid on them. About 15 years ago - so I can't say if this is still a practice for M&S. I seem to recall Pret did a similar thing at one point.
That's what I expected too. Thanks for the notice.
No to discriminative vaccine passports
very simple - go vegan if you have any care for the environment or basic ethics
I'm not taking nutritional advice from a person who's face has been treated like this by life.