This is what I'm struggling with. Food is already a lot of things depending on who's cooking, who they're cooking for, and why. If you're feeding vulnerable populations, It's a public health...
To me, art is pure aesthetic but food should be seen as high forms of craft and function. Food is inherently functional and I'm not sure how you can decouple that, even if you offer the most experimental meal...
This is what I'm struggling with. Food is already a lot of things depending on who's cooking, who they're cooking for, and why.
If you're feeding vulnerable populations, It's a public health service. If you're showcasing your country's culinary traditions, its a cultural exchange. If you're trying to make money, it's a business. They're all perfectly valid reasons to cook, and I don't see how adding gastronomy as an officially recognized art form makes life better for anyone besides the Michelin-starred restaurant owners who have already reached the peak of their craft and certainly aren't struggling to keep the lights that project pictures of ocean trash onto their ceilings on.
Hasn't cooking been an established art for a while? Art connects the symbolic to the experience, inspires emotion, and expresses identity, and food can do all those things, for sure. Is it the...
Hasn't cooking been an established art for a while? Art connects the symbolic to the experience, inspires emotion, and expresses identity, and food can do all those things, for sure. Is it the supplemental experience of eating while in a curated environment that's in question here?
The article talks about how an official acknowledgement of cooking as an art form would unlock the possibility of chefs qualifying for grant funding thats been earmarked for the arts. That...
The article talks about how an official acknowledgement of cooking as an art form would unlock the possibility of chefs qualifying for grant funding thats been earmarked for the arts. That requires a much more formal definition of what art is and isn't.
If some food is art, where do you draw the line? If a Michelin starred restaurant making a dish that conveys a message about pollution qualifies, what specific qualities does that dish have to make it art?
If I want to apply for arts funding, what sort of artistic merit does my food have to demonstrate? Is just being visually impressive enough?
Cooking is an expression of a culture and a people, and for better or worse, that expression has been tied to artistry, particularly in the cases of household labor that would otherwise go...
If I want to apply for arts funding, what sort of artistic merit does my food have to demonstrate? Is just being visually impressive enough?
Cooking is an expression of a culture and a people, and for better or worse, that expression has been tied to artistry, particularly in the cases of household labor that would otherwise go unrecognized. If grant money from the state could allow for family recipes, culinary traditions and the like to be practiced and displayed, allow people who have done that work unrecognized to sustain themselves, and let what would otherwise be lost to time be made immortal, I think you could make a pretty good case for it.
I think allocating funds to traditional art is useful because otherwise it can be difficult for people to get I to it and without that funding we would have a less diverse artistic culture. I...
I think allocating funds to traditional art is useful because otherwise it can be difficult for people to get I to it and without that funding we would have a less diverse artistic culture.
I think there are already plenty of ways to make a living at food. If public money was going to be used for food, it should be limited to making the food scene more diverse.
Do you not consider architecture to be art?
This is what I'm struggling with. Food is already a lot of things depending on who's cooking, who they're cooking for, and why.
If you're feeding vulnerable populations, It's a public health service. If you're showcasing your country's culinary traditions, its a cultural exchange. If you're trying to make money, it's a business. They're all perfectly valid reasons to cook, and I don't see how adding gastronomy as an officially recognized art form makes life better for anyone besides the Michelin-starred restaurant owners who have already reached the peak of their craft and certainly aren't struggling to keep the lights that project pictures of ocean trash onto their ceilings on.
Hasn't cooking been an established art for a while? Art connects the symbolic to the experience, inspires emotion, and expresses identity, and food can do all those things, for sure. Is it the supplemental experience of eating while in a curated environment that's in question here?
The article talks about how an official acknowledgement of cooking as an art form would unlock the possibility of chefs qualifying for grant funding thats been earmarked for the arts. That requires a much more formal definition of what art is and isn't.
If some food is art, where do you draw the line? If a Michelin starred restaurant making a dish that conveys a message about pollution qualifies, what specific qualities does that dish have to make it art?
If I want to apply for arts funding, what sort of artistic merit does my food have to demonstrate? Is just being visually impressive enough?
Cooking is an expression of a culture and a people, and for better or worse, that expression has been tied to artistry, particularly in the cases of household labor that would otherwise go unrecognized. If grant money from the state could allow for family recipes, culinary traditions and the like to be practiced and displayed, allow people who have done that work unrecognized to sustain themselves, and let what would otherwise be lost to time be made immortal, I think you could make a pretty good case for it.
I think allocating funds to traditional art is useful because otherwise it can be difficult for people to get I to it and without that funding we would have a less diverse artistic culture.
I think there are already plenty of ways to make a living at food. If public money was going to be used for food, it should be limited to making the food scene more diverse.