Call me a Neo-Luddite, but much of technology is just
downright scary. Take Google’s latest product, now in beta testing:
Google Glass. Isabel, my seventeen year old, brought this to my attention after some of
her friends were raving about it, saying that they can’t wait for it to hit the
market. Thankfully, Isabel herself is skeptical and concerned about Glass’s ramifications.
To me, it seems not very far removed from the
1991 Wim Wenders sci-fi film Until the End of the World, in which
people become addicted to glasses that allow them to view their own dreams, as
society collapses around them. I’m aware of the irony in my writing this blog
post on a Google platform, using technology that didn’t exist in the not so
distant past….
How does this relate to food, you may wonder? I’m a low tech
cook. I don’t tend to own a lot of fancy kitchen gadgets or appliances, in part
because I don’t like clutter, but also because I’m of the belief that they
don’t necessarily make food taste better. Most of the time, in fact, the
opposite is true. If you start with quality ingredients, the less you fuss with
them, the truer they taste. Elaborate preparations often just mask a food’s
essential flavor with an inferior flavor.
