Tuesday, June 1, 2010

EPICURIENS DELIGHT- Introduction

Food has been something which has been the fascination to me for a long. May it be the regular course of meal or the party I have always been keen in enjoying the taste and aroma rather than just completing the formalities of course...

"Food is the most primitive form of comfort."

Every effort in the life revolves round to fulfil one of the basic amenity which is food and we in due course of the same miss out on taking the same...I feel really sad for those who skip out food just in the name sake of busy schedule and those who consider having food just a regular routine.

May it be the major business decisions or the regular family affairs, history is witness-they often get solved over the meal.

It hadn't been too back in Indian culture where the meals used to be taken along with the whole family and all used to cherish the moment they spent together during the day but the whole set of food they enjoyed But the times have changed, now its and era of brunches and office lunches which often root out the feeling of closeness which develop over the meal and of course the move away from cherishing the food and its variety.

I just have a word of caution for those who miss out on enjoying food for other luxuries- "If you let the food be your medicine, then be ready for medicine to be your food."

Some say "the clothes they wear and the dishes they eat reflect their culture and ethnicity".

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese;

It has been always the reflection of the society and the denizens of the place.

"Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture."
Mark Kurlansky, 'Choice Cuts' (2002)

A desire to explore the enormous and varied taste bud tickling dishes makes me initiate this step to know the top five food places in the world.

Following is the list for the same...

Rank

Restaurant

Region

1

Noma

Denmark

2

El Bulli

Spain

3

The Fat Duck

UK

4

El Celler de Can Roca

Spain

5

Mugaritz

Spain


Will be covering each of the in detail in following blogs... Just keep watching..... J