"The Present and Future of the Passed Dish"

from the Studio @ NewMainStreet...One of the things I love about food is that it not only nourishes your body, and strengthens the soul, but it brings people, ideas and cultures together in a way that is unique, fresh, comfortable and inviting. A thing that speaks to Our core as human beings. Everyone, and everything, eats. Or at least they should. We first banded together as Humans for mutual prosperity. More hands, minds and backs meant more food and greater chance of survival for the whole clan, tribe, etc. We payed attention to the cycles of Mother Nature and Father Time, and how they effected the plants, animals and stars around us--and more importantly, what they meant, how to use them to our advantage. More knowledge also meant greater survival. So we settled down, planted crops, domesticated the animals around us--that we were able--developed ideas and techniques that Everyone, and everything, still use today. And we began to sit around a table, for the first time not having to care everything we owned on a horse, camel or elephant. We ate and prepared food together, learning, experimenting, creating what will eventually become the Family meals we all cherish as beloved traditions today. The history of what we eat, why we eat, when we eat, where we eat and how we eat is just as important as where we are from, what we wear, how we think, why we are social creatures and who we are as anything else in Our past. And for Our Future to come.