In the last years the chefs being the new stars, the television is the guilty: concourses, recipes programs and new TV programs for discover new cultures through his cooking, for example in Catalonia, the Karakia program. Also, arrives new foodstuffs. In years past, we can buy only in the specialized shops, now we buy in the week markets of the little villages or in the supermarkets: yucca, avocado, mango, by the side of the parsley, tomatoes and potatoes. With the immigration, arrive new restaurants: Asians, Europeans, South Americans, and Africans. In addition, it is the same around the world: if ‘Spain smells of garlic’ (Victoria Beckham), ‘London smells of curry’ (Angels Sola)
All this have an effect on ours food customs:
If you invited somebody to diner, you need to show that you are a great cook; you cannot cook a Cuban rice, fried eggs or macaroni. It is the same for the ‘new cooking’, Ferrran Adrià it is not famous for his grandmothers’ meat and vegetable stew. In addition, if you go to diner with the friends you want taste the exotic cooking, is more “in”.
Another example of the changes: my mother changes her lentil recipe, we had a familiar crisis. Today nobody have time to cook, the young people cannot know cook, we lost the grandmother’s recipes.
The quality products changes too, a few years go every day the people take basket, the bag of the bread and the milk jug and go to the shop of the corner, bakery and fish market, today we buy on day of the week in the great supermarkets. This change doing more contamination (plastic packing) and the little farms disappears.
In addition, for finish: the half world died for malnutrition and the other half died for heart attacks, cholesterol and diabetes. One of the most famous Spanish chefs has a TV advertisement for cholesterol product.
One good: we have biological crop, my friend Rosa learn to do traditional cooking (she searches in internet the recipes) and the most important my mother teaches her traditional lentil recipe to my brother and me, she says “we can’t lost the grandmother Sinforosa’s recipes”. Well: WE HAVE HOPE.
