The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, “the large red apple” caters to the public love of all that is “sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing.” Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now “half-masticated … before reaching the mouth,” and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties of pap.
—Time Magazine review of Mechanization Takes Command from 1948
Presented in a glass-topped wooden box containing an edible seascape made up of abalone, razor clams, shrimps and oysters, it is served with an iPod so diners can listen to marine sound effects while they eat.
—Some website re: a dish at Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck
Thanks to the wonders of Amazon book search, I have discovered that ancient romans actually possessed LASER TECHNOLOGY and that these Romans in their infinite classical wisdom used the lasers to create a delicious pork sauce! The image gobsmacking your domepiece right now comes from the ever-invaluable Apicius
(⇒ via actually it might have been google, but i think amazon. yes, I google “laser sauce” in my spare time.)
