Something has been bothering me lately. FOOD. I'm not hungry, nor do I have allergies, and there is very little that gives me heartburn. But, food bothers me. Or rather, our Western culture's attitude toward food. We worship food (foodistas, gormands). We take food for granted. It's always there. We don't have to look too far for it. We have an entire cable network dedicated to it. We have cable programs telling us about the 10 top places to 'pig out' on 4 pound steaks, 11 pound pizzas, buckets of ice cream (30+ scoops) and 3 pound burgers. We seek out the trendiest eateries with the newest 'fusion' cooking. We make chefs into celebrities. We spend big bucks buying the latest cookbooks or technical tomes, and then rarely open them. We through away tons of uneaten food because it isn't "fresh." We have "fast food" joints on every other corner competing for our business, offering to supersize and refill. For what? To stuff our supersized guts and satiate our need for more and more. Makes one wonder how much we consume or throw away could have been used to feed people who don't have enough to keep them alive.