Posted by Sharon Odmann on September 17, 1998 at 12:58:01:
In Reply to: Re: Thanksgiving is coming. Have you killed someone lately? posted by Chef Mars on September 17, 1998 at 05:12:37:
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: Chef Francois de Melogue,
: Not surprisingly t appears as if your ego is getting in the way of your professional responsibilites. I would be careful to admit publicly that your are knowingly using questionable ingredients but not taking the necessary and in some cases required precautions as to their preparation and serving.
: This is the crime of our time, as too many chefs and cooks incorrectly perceive themselves as artists and not craftsman or craftswomen.
: It has been fun, but I think I will let you all keep playing with yourselves.
: adios
Chef Mars,
I fail to see how you have dragged ego into this....please enlighten me. Additionally, where did you get the idea that Francois uses questionable ingredients. Are you just having a bad day?
What is apparent is that we have hit a hot spot with you, so perhaps you will tell us why you have gotten so excited about this subject, excited enough to let us play by ourselves.
I respect you for all I have learned from you in your various posts in the bbs we both frequent.
Tell me this: Will you serve a rare steak for a customer? Or do you refuse, based on something that you read happened in another restaurant having to do with mad cow or some such disease?
Mars, if we get too afraid of our food, why then we are only a jump away from Soylent Green. We have to trust our food and it's sources. We have a right to expect clean food. I wrote a long editorial piece about irradiation, which is just a band-aid for a sick food industry. We should be shouting at the top of our collective lungs to make food manufacturers and growers clean up their acts, not just zapping the food as it passes by.
I am sorry if you are too offended to continue this conversation. Tell us what is really on your mind.
Sharon.........a craftswoman with a huge sense of integrity.