Sunday, September 25, 2005
Are we trying to make the world disgustingly salty?
It just struck me that if we are meant to be salt then we are meant influence the flavour in a distinct but subtle, important but not overpowering way. But we want to impose our views everywhere. We want to control everything. Maybe the religousosity that we condem is merely our own attempt to be too salty. Yuck!!!
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lol.. I've been running some of these things past my non-Christian girl friend.. we both look very poorly on the colonialising / bible bashing stance of many Christians and hence religion has been a difficult topic for us to cover.. however we talked about salt being a subtle but important flavour and now I have her blessing to write to her about my religious experiences..
not sure communicating with one person will start a movement.. lol
but trying to remove the bad taste, hopefully I can manage that with time..
peace
lol... now you could really start a new movement with that my freind!!! ;o)
Too often the church has tried to take bits of the world, a piece of beef from the stew sort of thing, and try to cram it into the salt shaker!! "Come up here into the shaker, you are too stewy!" Sounds ridiculous from a culinary viewpoint...and it's just as silly from a spiritual one. We are supposed to get out of the shaker and spread ourselves around. We aren't supposed to turn the stew into salt, but flavour it. Big difference, and quite thought provoking, yes?
indeed... welcome to the cooking pot paula... DM
Good thought Paula. Keep em coming. I think you are onto something.
:-)
I remember the first time I ever made peanut brittle, and was surprised to learn that a primary ingredient in candy is salt. I soon discovered that salt makes sweet things sweeter and the savory even moreso. However, if you can discern the taste of the salt itself, you've likely added too much. It is the role of the salt to enhance existing flavors, not to provide its own.
Food for thought...
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