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In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.
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posted Thursday, April 10, 2003
Postprandial Ruminations
Following a dinner at Marigold's last night, my father and I revisited some great meals of the past in places like Amsterdam and Germany and Taiwan -- learning first-hand the truth that "Great meals gain in reflection, everything else fades" -- but savoring each as something more than the mere act of consuming or basic sustenance, since each is, as my dad says, an experience, and it occurred to me that dining is intensely intimate, for you can see or touch or smell or hear something but the observed remains separate, detached, and it is only through eating and tasting that we bring something into our bodies, that to eat means to take something and make it a part of yourself, to physically become one with what you are consuming -- and therefore cooking can be likened to the act of creating life (therin lying an oft-made connection between food and sex) -- simultaneously occasioning the cliche'd "you are what you eat," and denouncing our culture of faster food where the act has become transitory, vapid, and discardable, but I rejoice in the fact that every day brings new opportunities for new meals, new experiences; I'm hungry again.
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