What is gastronomy? I was thinking about this word. Nowadays it seems to be degraded, or more like snob. There is a huge gap in between the world of gastronomy and the "real" world, somehow. There are the people, who belong to this mysterious, rich, almost freemason-like group, and there is the rest of the world. But what is gastronomy about? Today it is really about a small group of people, who can afford themselves to eat well from the best available ingredients, made by the best (mostly man) chefs, in the world's so-called best, three-star restaurants. Funny enough, these are mainly the same people, who has the political and economic influence, which actually runs our world as it is, and it was always like this, so I dare to hope, I did not say anything new, or surprising. I am not a native English speaker, I learned it in high-school, so you may notice some grammatical mistakes. But I remember, what the teacher said about the difference between it was and it has been. If I would have written "it has always been like this" it would mean, this period hasn't come to its end yet, but I used the other one for that simple reason, because we reached that point, when no matter how much is in your pocket. A period came to its end, when the Earth is running out of its resources. We disrupted the natural cycles, we only take out without giving anything back. Money is just a fictive currency, which does not exist in nature. And you do not have to be a scientist to be aware of this, today it is a proven fact, we messed it up. Pessimists say, there is no return, optimists say the opposite. If you agree with the pessimist, do not read my blog, because there is no reason you are still doing something.

I am definitely not an optimist, I follow the news, from different sources, and I see, what is happening, and things are not going in the direction of being optimistic. But instead of crying over my computer, thinking of overpopulation, global warming or the questionable existing plastic island, I am doing something, because every single person is able to. And a lot of us does.

I write a blog to share my thoughts, to post about what I am doing in my closest environment. That is what I am able to possibly help and hopefully change. I live in East Jutland, Denmark. If you live here, you can catch up with all the informations related to food and agriculture in the area. If you do not live here, take some courage and discover the area around you, and reconnect people with their food on every possible way.

I believe, we all have every tool, we need to change the world around us. And these tools do not cost money, there is no excuse not to use them. These are our decisions about how we spend our time. What do we use it for? To keep an illusion of a non-existing world, which we are wanted to believe in, or to actually live? I am afraid, we are about to lose the capability to notice the difference, and to turn things back.

Gastronomy is something much bigger, than people would think. This science is able to create healthy people, planet and fix the misunderstood connection between them. Gastronomy is the discipline, which is able to reconnect us humans to our nature. If we do not fix this relation, we are lost. We all make decisions, at least three times a day, -at breakfast, lunch and dinner- about the future of the humans and this planet. So, you can already be a change from tomorrow, right before breakfast!

I stop writing, because thinking is the killer of action. I try to keep the balance between doing and writing about doing. And until someone is reading here, I will write about what I do. Now I am going to cook, from tasty, local ingredients.

Vi ses!