I think 'good food' culture is frankly a 'bad' food culture. Bad for society I mean. People spending so much time concentrating on what goes into their bodies and not enough time actually living life is not healthy. By all means eat fresh and well, but don't waste your time pouring over ingredients lists and fathoming combinations when there is so much, much more useful and much less selfish, information out there you could be consuming instead. It's also developes this dreadful, pompous, snobbery in people who have discovered it and believe it bespeaks of some level of culture and intelligence, when if anything it testifies to the opposite. It's especially frustrating in countries that have only recently taken it onboard, were as for nations such as France, who have a long and prestigious history in both snobbery and cookery, it is already part of their identity. It's a vital function, but it's not one that needs to be dressed up and sugar coated. Figures such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Gordon Ramsay have made it even more repellent with this pseudo machismo now associated with 'men in the kitchen', that sexual, authoritarian chef figure now becoming idolised by so many middle-aged men devoid of purpose. I think sheer fucking boredom plays a part to, couples feeble attempts to re-ignite some sort of passion by getting passionate in the kitchen (and not with each other on the worktops) over the only thing they can find they have in common anymore. I mean seriously if cookery is the only think you can talk about with your soul mate apparent, then you need to call a divorce lawyer.
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