tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798107996159748345.post5041632345456075229..comments2023-05-19T08:57:04.350-07:00Comments on Okanagan Daily Special: "Chef" as we know it.Okanagan Daily Specialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143353179001487184noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798107996159748345.post-22277374702652272132010-07-09T19:55:03.060-07:002010-07-09T19:55:03.060-07:00Absolutely they would. It is the technology that w...Absolutely they would. It is the technology that we were told would make life simpler that has in fact made life one perpetual work day. Cell phones, blackberries and now I-Pads have made it nearly impossible for people to escape work let alone stop ringing or beeping long enough to make dinner. I can't count the number of times I've looked into a dinning room to see someone at a table talking or texting during dinner. I just find it hard to believe how easily we as a global community fell into this trap. Soon enough though people will start to migrate back to the ways of our parents childhoods, maybe by choice but most likely because they are out of work. As the unemployment rate goes up family life will return. Imagine if only one person in every household had to work. Then will be the time of the block parties and spit roasts.Sean Peltierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05973703557540693522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798107996159748345.post-46539658460954358082010-07-08T14:00:07.284-07:002010-07-08T14:00:07.284-07:00Its strange that you finished with "people us...Its strange that you finished with "people use to work to live, not live to work" in recent times people are working 2-3 times as much as people did in the 1600s, yet in modern mans words, life is getting "more convienient" with convience food, your laptop/cellphone/ipod/camera/GPS/universal remote control/newspaper.... you get it device, how IS it that life is convienient?<br />i was in a discussion the other day with my room mate as she prepared dinner, something simple fast, and essentially "substanance" i asked her if she ever thinks about dinner the day before, or 2 days in advance? she said she doesnt have time.<br />time is a valuable commodity.<br />if we all lived in community, local and such, would that increase time for the inner foodies to come forth? would people have more block parties next saturday? would you have friends over on friday for that amazing batch of ribs and buns you made on wednesday?Max-fasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410419337065687021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798107996159748345.post-1371587034178923072010-07-07T12:01:44.951-07:002010-07-07T12:01:44.951-07:00I was just reading an article that I think relates...I was just reading an article that I think relates to this topic to a degree. In terms of living off the land, "practicing what you preach" and what not:<br /><br />"If we build self-contained structures, ones that do as little harm as possible to the environment, we can weather the coming collapse. This task will be accomplished through the existence of small, physical enclaves that have access to sustainable agriculture, are able to sever themselves as much as possible from commercial culture and can be largely self-sufficient. These communities will have to build walls against electronic propaganda and fear that will be pumped out over the airwaves. Canada will probably be a more hospitable place to do this than the United States, given America's strong undercurrent of violence. But in any country, those who survive will need isolated areas of land as well as distance from urban areas, which will see the food deserts in the inner cities, as well as savage violence, leach out across the urban landscape as produce and goods become prohibitively expensive and state repression becomes harder and harder..." -Chris Hedges<br /><br />I realize that this doesn't seem to link up to the restaurant industry directly<br />however, is it not our duty as cooks/lovers of food and life to take initiative and start moving forward in this direction?<br />Having restaurants on farm land, be involved directly with farms, don't rely on fossil fuels (that goes for sysco, neptune, etc)<br />instead rely on yourself and your local community.<br />No Chefs, no titles, just community.<br />we would just be going back to what is natural, pure and what life is based upon...survival. People used to work to live not live to work.shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18317537118427456424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798107996159748345.post-89587396121010620512010-07-07T10:30:39.062-07:002010-07-07T10:30:39.062-07:00Ahmen!Ahmen!Sean Peltierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05973703557540693522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798107996159748345.post-9186207481420914102010-07-07T06:53:27.620-07:002010-07-07T06:53:27.620-07:00Not to bring up the antagonism between use value a...Not to bring up the antagonism between use value and exchange value this early in the morning, but...<br /><br />46. Exchange value could only have arisen as the proxy of use value, but the victory it eventually won with its own weapons created the preconditions for its establishment as an autonomous power. By activating all human use value and monopolizing that value's fulfillment, exchange value eventually gained the upper hand. The process of exchange became indistinguishable from any conceivable utility, thereby placing use value at its mercy. Starting out as the condottiere (think privatemilitary.org) of use value, exchange value ended up waging a war that was entirely its own.<br /><br />Thus spracht Guy Debord<br /><br />Speaking of low use value, and even lower exhange value, I'd like to see "placement" on the use value/exchange value continuum as the final word in "criticism". For example <br /><br />"Resaurant X is 3.5% use value and 96.5% exchange value...those who love embroidery, starch and giving the credit card a good work out should eat here" <br /><br />or<br /><br />"Restaurant Y is 92% use value and 8% exchange value...those who aren't afraid of organ meat and don't mind a cut off Iron Maiden tee-shirt should have a good time."Okanagan Daily Specialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13143353179001487184noreply@blogger.com