Let's Discuss With Ryan

Our charming chef Ryan Boudreaux of Cajun Chef Ryan has started a discussion topic on safety of food. As an experienced professional chef, Ryan pointed out important examples of the issue such as the melamine case of Chinese baby food products or careless dairy product sellers on his article. It is good to read it and discuss on it as a duty of social awareness in my opinion.

How safe and clean the food they sell us? How much can we trust in suppliers? What must we do locally and globally? I've added the comments I left on his page here, too, just to give an idea, and invite you all to be aware of what we cook & eat.



I guess I’m a bit away from this topic as we have mostly our own products in Turkey. However because of some international politics issues agricultre is under risk of foreign attack here, too. Our main problem is how much the seeds are changed/rotten in dnas. As organic products are much more expensive than any other products it’s inevitable to use products grown with ‘too much’ hormons.

Although such problems I guess we’re still lucky to living in Turkey as we mostly have our own fresh products. Also we do not use Chinese products of food here. Not much I guess. Tea is an exception, and I’m not sure if they can add any melamine or any other things to tea. (And as I know scented/flavoured teas are mostly proceeded in Europe or in the States.)

I jumped from topic to topic. To sum up I can say that we should mostly use daily/fresh products and mostly from local producers if possible.
Human of earlier era was in balance with nature. They were following the specialities of the seasons. In my opinion we’d rather sign a peace agreement with nature, and listen to it. The start of the global economical crisis is also another signal of the mistakes we’ve been doing towards nature and history.


I forgot to add. Food is a very important item of political tricks which gets you confused. You sometimes can’t decide who to trust.

As in the melamine issue of China, here was another topic about coca-cola drinks which are sent to Turkey. Some organizations say that Coca Cola is using a kind of cheaper sweetener which causes brain damage and illnesses in colas they send to Turkey.

This can be a political saying or a scientific truth. They show you scientific proof of their argument however I cannot really know who tells the real truth as an individual.

If we go back to first comment of mine as food is the most important part of our lives it’s better to chose products which we know better, which we can control easier… means which is local (as much as possible)

Ohh I didn’t know that I had that much to say about it lol another thing about chosing the local.

Human dna is same in human-being as species. However every member of different geographic area has his own genetic codes.

There was an article about this in Geo. They simply say this : eat what your ancestors were eating. For example if you are a native of America eat what Americans have been eating (or were eating) there for ages. Or if you’re a Nordic, eat what your ancestors were eating along the ages. Because nature gives you what you really need to have to live right “there… where you live”.

Of course there is nothing wrong to eat healthy products of any part of the world. Variety of nature is endlessly on use of human. Our body and lives are precious. And nature is a gift given to us to keep safe and give to next generations. Here then the second ‘must’ comes: Just have the food which is natural and fresh. The thing which you feed your body must be a product of nature not industrial…


Nature gives physically & socially the best for us. All we need is trust.



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