educate kids about food by Jamie Oliver

Is if for real?

Jamie’s passionate talk was nice, as it’s like his cooking show, but is it for real? Like kids say “potatoes” when they saw tomatoes. Or the interview to a woman with full of pizzas, burgers and junk food on the table, isn’t it too much rendering?

One of my very close friend was surprised when I told him that radish is good for digestion, the reason pineapple in stair fried sweet sour pork, he asked me how i know it, I don’t know how, I just learned in my past life, maybe from mom, maybe from somewhere else. He even asked me what’s the difference between squid and octopus, they even have different numbers of legs.

But sometimes I am the same, I know potatoes or tomatoes, but I can’t imagine original animals when I see a packed meat, or fish, there are so many different fishes or same fished but different name depends on the season, sometimes I can’t tell what the fish is.

Since I came to Thailand, I see more ‘original’ animal of meat, I see dead body of a pig, it’s just a dead bod of big for me but when it’s cut into small portion then it’s called pork, wondering when a pig turns into a pork.

Last few months, I have been having very simple food, I don’t even cook much because of my tummy problem, things I can eat don’t require cooking, my tummy can’t digest protein, fat etc. So what I have is only rice, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits and unsweetened yogurt. So I know what I eat.

Then I realized, I didn’t really know what I eat when I eat out. How much of MSG I had taken? How much sugar? Sometimes I don’t even know what kind of meat I am having, it’s impossible for me to imagine the animal provides the meat.

How can non-fat yogurt be so sweet? How can bread stay ok for weeks in this hot country?

How can we eat something we don’t even know what it is? How can we trust the food? Why don’t we have questions about the food?

To learn about food, Thai local market is the great place, there are a lot of dead bodies which is not yet processed, a lot of strange vegetables or fruits, and you see people working with food. Taking “civilized” kids to Thai local market would be a great way to educate kids, it tells not only about food, kids would learn about life as well.

Well…. TEDxBKK is today, btw. Jamie is not here though…