G is for Gluttony

 

Gluttony is a word that invokes immediate denial. Associated with one of the seven deadly sins, it is nothing to gloat about or promote. However, everyone has trespassed at some point in time. It is only a matter of whether the individual can be honest with himself and acknowledge the bed crumbs below his bed, empty bottles lying in the trash bin, or even see the chocolate smeared across his face. 

No doubt, it is a subjective word and entirely depends on your own lexicon of taste. Admittedly, gluttony is a word that I have come to know in the past year. I knew that studying food would require a voracious appetite plus my stomach needed to expand and my palette needed to improve. Fortunately for me, my university was conveniently located in Piedmont Italy, home to some of Italy's best wine varietals as well as only miles from the anchovy belt of Liguria. 

 The pleasure of eating well is a key element of Italian culture. However, it, too has its own roots in gluttony. After all, it was the Romans who set the bar high inventing vomatoriums so they could ride the wave of gluttony. It is not certain if this was the reason for their downfall but it certainly fell in line with the late Empire's lesser attributes of rampant corruption, incest, and other weird voodoo perhaps making the  Gothic barbarian invasion more inevitable and the Romans more vulnerable and a little soft.   

So yes, gluttony comes at a price but it also reveals some truths about human nature....we are bound to fall, to be tempted and to bite, and in this case, overindulge until both our physical and spiritual sensibilites can take these  bilious excesses no more. 

Gluttony can be tragic in the Roman sense or comical - an element that seems to escape much food writing today. I am not sure if it was or can be romantic but I am sure Shakespeare has a sonnet or two with the "G" word. Either way, gluttony, as I have learned can function as a source of gastronomical enlightenment. It teaches you many a lesson, gives you some historical perspectives, a burp, and occasionally a laugh or two. 

 

 

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Gluttony: wry, charming, inspired.

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Chips in the night?

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