Food fight

Food is making the national news again today: Jamie Oliver causing controversy by berating folks who are short of money and who spend on ready meals rather than making their own nourishing meals more cheaply at home; and Gordon Ramsey's new restaurant opening in Borough mid-September, backed by David Beckham, and booking out on Saturday nights until November within the first few hours  of opening on line - crikey - is David waiting on tables or what ?!
My own food news is both at home and away.....
As I'm spending a lot of time at Chelsea Physic Garden these days, much energy has gone into promoting this season's theme of Superfood Summer - debunking the myths of so-called miracle foodstuffs. As well as the display beds of good old apple, tomato, cabbage, kale and more such, a new and legitimate superfood to me is quinoa -  pronounced, I'm told, as keen-oo-aah. I've actually bought some now but haven't tried to cook any yet as I'm advised that the '20 mins' on the packet is much too short and because I never seem to have much time, it's very much an 'inconvenience' food for me. So the nourishment that could help me live to 123 - like the chap from Bolivia as reported the other day - will just have to wait a bit longer.
The 'away food' news was much more distressing. I'm just back from another brilliant few days at the Edinburgh Festival but what is still spinning in my mind is a production I saw called Trash Cuisine. I have never seen so much food chopped and smashed so scarily on stage. The theatre company from Belarus used food in their amazingly inventive production to symbolise torture, brutality and murders committed by the many and various regimes and governments across the world over recent years - and still today. It was disgusting, chilling and totally effecting.