Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.
Interpretation
This quote suggests rethinking our relationship with food rather than labeling it as 'healthy' or 'unhealthy'. It's about changing our mindset towards food.
Marcus Samuelsson's quote challenges the conventional terminology surrounding food, particularly the labeling of certain foods as 'healthy'. By proposing to ban the phrase 'healthy food', he advocates for a shift in perspective where we focus on the overall experience and relationship with food rather than divisive categorization. This approach encourages a more holistic understanding of nourishment and enjoyment, promoting a healthier attitude toward eating that transcends simplistic labels.
In practice
During a health and wellness seminar, I shared this quote to encourage participants to rethink their approach to nutrition.
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it's easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.
Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
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