One of the few good things of being Italian is that everything he said you kinda know by default, you know food, you share food, you are generally responsible of food consumption.
Bravo for Ken - his curiosity, enthusiasm, knowledge and conviction. We may not cook but still value a "home-cooked" meal, Sunday dinner, Thanksgiving, the feast after Midnight Mass, brunch. I got the "spend an hour" speech in high school in a Boys Only talk about "health" a zillion years ago (lol). He said we owed it to ourselves to fix a nice meal and enjoy it every day. As religious and civic gatherings decline, food is assuming a greater importance socially. I see two more problems - the mother to daughter chain that worked for years is gone and our affluence lets us pretend to cook / dine out. We went to a progressive dinner (food not politics) and in a $150,000 kitchen the wife told us she liked to cook except for handling food, cutting, dicing or using the stove. Her husband said, "We do cook!" (They get these packages where you add X to Y then stir in Z and put in microwave.) I taught my kids to cook and they do so today for their families.
It makes me sad that people don't cook. I'm visually impaired and I am the only one in my group who new how to cook. If a nearly blind person can cook and make it turn out great, then ANYONE can. Get with the program people!
I think the reason people insist on out of season produce is mainly because of cookbooks. "The recipe says I need peaches!" so you go to the grocery store in the middle of December and pick over sad tasteless peaches. Darling, pick a different recipe! That being said, frozen foods are great. I consider them to be like fresh produce more than anything.
Whoa, you are preaching to the choir re: losing cookbooks. I have no use for the damned things. And most are loaded with recipes plagiarized from other cookbooks "tweaked" to give the impression of novelty. After 30 years of professional cooking I've got maybe as many cookbooks in my library. About a tenth are books I've edited; most are hand-me-downs; there are 3 that I open a few times/ year.
I happen to think that cookbooks can be an amazing resource specially when learning to cook and to culture oneself. I started cooking by learning to cook fro Vefa Alexiadou Greek Cuisine cookbook from Phaidon. Before getting that book I used to cook by intuition but it was very complicated coming up with ideas, knowing the ingredients, etc. I wouldn't disparage cookbooks.....
This is hilarious because it's the first time I've ever taken the time to even comment on a RUclips video. My mom is Italian. Trust me I know the culture and compared to the United States, you have absolutely no ground to talk about "food culture". I'm sure you have your little narrow niche and it's cool. It's nothing like the scale of US food culture though.
@@benhunter5993 Having "Food Culture" doesn't mean having a wide range of type of food....which by the way is nowhere near to old countries like Italy, Greece, Indian, China and so on. Most people in US eat burgers and have no idea how to cook at home, they just put their food in the microwave while drinking chemical-sweet-pepsi....when they see me cook a simple recipe they think I am a chef but the truth is that if you grow up in a Country with a strong Food Culture you develop a knowledge of food pretty quickly. Food Culture , it means having a rich knowledge that has been passed from one generation to the next. It means that your lifestyle revolve around food (quality food) and I'm sorry to say buy in US you have quantity but not quality. America is mass producing million of food products and export them around the world but it only means that you have a great Food Business not to be confused with Food Culture. Vastly different things my friend. (and the fact that your mother is Italian doesn't entitle you to compare Italian food with american food.)
@@benhunter5993 "USA has the most prolific food" starts talking about his Italian heritage just showing how the usa doesn't have a base, it just make version of other things
One of the best TED's I have heard. He is correct in everything that he says in this talk and I completely agree. Also, he speaks well.
One of the few good things of being Italian is that everything he said you kinda know by default, you know food, you share food, you are generally responsible of food consumption.
Bravo for Ken - his curiosity, enthusiasm, knowledge and conviction. We may not cook but still value a "home-cooked" meal, Sunday dinner, Thanksgiving, the feast after Midnight Mass, brunch. I got the "spend an hour" speech in high school in a Boys Only talk about "health" a zillion years ago (lol). He said we owed it to ourselves to fix a nice meal and enjoy it every day.
As religious and civic gatherings decline, food is assuming a greater importance socially. I see two more problems - the mother to daughter chain that worked for years is gone and our affluence lets us pretend to cook / dine out. We went to a progressive dinner (food not politics) and in a $150,000 kitchen the wife told us she liked to cook except for handling food, cutting, dicing or using the stove. Her husband said, "We do cook!" (They get these packages where you add X to Y then stir in Z and put in microwave.) I taught my kids to cook and they do so today for their families.
It makes me sad that people don't cook. I'm visually impaired and I am the only one in my group who new how to cook. If a nearly blind person can cook and make it turn out great, then ANYONE can. Get with the program people!
He's also a great professor
I think the reason people insist on out of season produce is mainly because of cookbooks. "The recipe says I need peaches!" so you go to the grocery store in the middle of December and pick over sad tasteless peaches. Darling, pick a different recipe! That being said, frozen foods are great. I consider them to be like fresh produce more than anything.
This is my proffesor! lol
all truth!
I did not know that Marie Calender was a restaurant
Whoa, you are preaching to the choir re: losing cookbooks. I have no use for the damned things. And most are loaded with recipes plagiarized from other cookbooks "tweaked" to give the impression of novelty.
After 30 years of professional cooking I've got maybe as many cookbooks in my library. About a tenth are books I've edited; most are hand-me-downs; there are 3 that I open a few times/ year.
I never use cookbooks either! I'm talking about cooking, not the books themselves!
I happen to think that cookbooks can be an amazing resource specially when learning to cook and to culture oneself. I started cooking by learning to cook fro Vefa Alexiadou Greek Cuisine cookbook from Phaidon. Before getting that book I used to cook by intuition but it was very complicated coming up with ideas, knowing the ingredients, etc. I wouldn't disparage cookbooks.....
Great talk! I was so intrigued, but this wouldn't play beyond 12:17 - how frustrating!
How old is this video
Jello guy!!!!!!
Why is he speaking so fast?
Slow down the video.
He wants to fit in as much info as his time allots.
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This is likely to happen in a country with no food culture (like USA) where people don't even know how food grows or is processed. Sad.
Ken is American. We have the most prolific food culture in the world.
@@benhunter5993 AHAHAAHHAH that was funny
This is hilarious because it's the first time I've ever taken the time to even comment on a RUclips video. My mom is Italian. Trust me I know the culture and compared to the United States, you have absolutely no ground to talk about "food culture". I'm sure you have your little narrow niche and it's cool. It's nothing like the scale of US food culture though.
@@benhunter5993 Having "Food Culture" doesn't mean having a wide range of type of food....which by the way is nowhere near to old countries like Italy, Greece, Indian, China and so on.
Most people in US eat burgers and have no idea how to cook at home, they just put their food in the microwave while drinking chemical-sweet-pepsi....when they see me cook a simple recipe they think I am a chef but the truth is that if you grow up in a Country with a strong Food Culture you develop a knowledge of food pretty quickly.
Food Culture , it means having a rich knowledge that has been passed from one generation to the next.
It means that your lifestyle revolve around food (quality food) and I'm sorry to say buy in US you have quantity but not quality.
America is mass producing million of food products and export them around the world but it only means that you have a great Food Business not to be confused with Food Culture.
Vastly different things my friend.
(and the fact that your mother is Italian doesn't entitle you to compare Italian food with american food.)
@@benhunter5993 "USA has the most prolific food" starts talking about his Italian heritage just showing how the usa doesn't have a base, it just make version of other things