Kitchen Education Manifesto

[ www.helladelicious.com ] I discovered this musing, written by a Shaker Plowman, while I was studying at the Culinary Institute of America. One of the most fantastic aspects of that school is the huge library they have of culinary works from across the centuries. I was writing a paper on the Shakers, and when I first read this in the Shaker Manifesto of 1883, I got goose bumps and my spine shivered. Unfortunately the people who are in positions of power currently in our world are generally on pretty bad diets. Couple that with high stress lifestyles and we have a perfect recipe for paranoid, grumpy and negative thinking personalities. Is it really such a good idea to let people like this run our world?