I love to cook and watch a lot of shows on the Food Network.

I recently watched one of their premier food competitions “Tournament of Champions”. It was fun to watch. It employs a bracket format, like the NCAA tournament, and an eventual champion. There are constraints on each match, time, food elements, tools, etc.

But that isn’t what struck me.

What struck me was some of the dishes that were created.

There were fried cod collars

There was goat raviolis with a tomato foam.

And a hundred other dishes, the likes of which I will probably never eat.

That got me thinking about the difference between high-end food and the food that the vast majority of people put on their plates every day.

Very few people (proportionally) eat food at the high-end level. I would bet that more people eat at a McDonald’s in one day than at every high-end food establishment in a year.

The same thing is true in fashion. Very few people wear the clothes that runway models wear. Most people buy ‘off the rack’ from big box stores.

The same goes for art, books, music, etc.

It all boils down to what you are trying to create. Something that appeals to an elite few, or something that appeals to the masses.

Quote

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.

David M. Burns

Haiku

see the trail winding
amidst trees unto the sea
who decides the path?

Word of the Day

circumlocution | noun | ser-kum-loh-KYOO-shun

Circumlocution refers to the use of many words to say something that could be said more clearly and directly with fewer words. Usually encountered in formal speech and writing, circumlocution can also refer to speech that is intentionally evasive. [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circumlocution]