Forgetting what we are, what we eat is where we can find our first MEMORY of SURVIVAL. What we do to survive is how we can be before we do philosophy. Therefore, what we eat and how we eat is essential to understanding how we think and understand anything. There is a world of difference between foraging and running an errand, and there are plenty of people who forage in vancouver, though perhaps we can call that scrounging…

In Dantes comedy, Satan is located at the center of our earth, the greatest density of SIN residing on earth is what holds our bodies down. “Food matters. It has weight, and it weighs us down” Belasco p2. Food is here represented like the satan at the center of the earth, the gravity which holds us down the original sin which itself is the process that unifies what is above with what is below, what comes from the earth and what comes from either ancestral knowledge or a sort of inspiration from being-in-the-world ( a recipe). The idea of a recipe and an ingredient is what formulates any aesthetic, and the invention of new ingredients that are in not ‘ingredients’ or ‘new’ has created a virtual-space of SIMULATED food ideology. The idea of a food pathway is only understandable from within a food pathway, so to relate to food is to know how we ‘get’ food. What I do to get my food in my home is sometimes walk to the store, and then I get whatever ingredients I need that day and I cook them. I have a background that doesnt really have any disciplined cooking habits, and acquiring those habits is a different place to operate from. I am still an unskilled cook. The sin of eating is no sin, it is the choice to stay grounded and be in the world. focusing on indigenous ideas is the only thing that interests me, I believe that in the last few decades but more so the last few years, the Academy has had to scramble to recognize the actually existing doctoral knowledge in indigenous communities in order to contextually legitimize the Academic establishment. In other words: it is becoming unconcealed that knowledge about the world is more knowledgeable than knowledge about knowledge about the world. A recipe is best when it is made. The food is not the recipe, the ingredient is not the ingredient named. Thats the kinda meme Im going for.