Chestnut Tree Cafe

This theme is an attempt to bring together food issues and events that symbolise something particularly fundamental about diet and culture – the ’stuff of life’. The theme comprises sections on Seafood – literally the origins of life; Breakfast – that moment of emergent consciousness we call the start of the day and the event that western nutritionists are wont to admonish not to miss; Meat and the surrounding associations with masculinity, the power of meat….; Macrobiotic foods – the Tao of eating, and for me perhaps the most food sense I have come across in my life, I generally manage to indulge in some plain macro fare every once in a while and generally I feel much cleansed for having done so; and the protection of life, Food safety.