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#nytfoodfestival: Feeding the World. Good intentions + good topic + good people = inane, apolitical, self-congratulatory commentary. Everything hinging on individual waste + charity. A waste of time. Missed opportunity. Bottura talks way to much about everything.
Celebrity driven ill-informed nonsense. Mostly.
Honestly that was an embarrassment. Who curated this at NYT?
I was informed by Bottura how terrible the food culture of Hispanics in the US is — the whole group other than their very good family values, it appears. No familiarity at all with all the folks working hard to make a difference. Whose planning was this?
Sweet, sentimental, celebrity-driven, foodie nonsense. A reminder why foodies should be excluded from any serious discussion about food.
Bottura spoke 97% of the time, filled with inane, unrelated anecdotes. He shut up two women who probably had something interesting to say. I will never know.
Bottura’s answer: well executed soup kitchens with otherwise wasted food funded by millionaires. Really! That is our response to feeding the world?
Eliminating individual consumer waste has become the ill-informed panacea for chefs/foodies/foundations. That does not offend anyone. We can get on board. That will change little in terms of access/entitlements to food, land/agricultural inputs. Sooner we recognize that better.
