Food Blogs- Shame to the Five Star Hotels and Top Restaurants

For the life of me, I could not believe my own eyes, the kind of creativity which existed across the globe, when it came to Gastronomy.

Being a connoisseur of food and have traveled far and wide and with a passion to try one and everything which was veggie. I am overwhelmed to see the Gastronomy Adventures on the net.

The writing skills, the recipes, the pictures and the presentations are an example of mankind`s evolution of another color. Visit Tastespotting or Foodblogs or Foodgawker and so many more and one is visiting " Alice in Foodland ".

Food for me is like one of the highest form of Art. Art is something which appeals to the eyes and here is an Art Form, which appeals to the eyes, smell and tongue and finally the soul and at the end is very satisfying, when your body makes the final announcement of " Gahhhhhh"

Now, if you have been a restaurant freak and have enjoyed dining in all chains like Hyatt, JWM, Inter Continental, or Shangrila , then you know, the taste of an Industrial kitchen can never be something which is personalized and cooked leisurely with flavors . For that matter any of the top chefs there cannot match the variety and presentation of Tastespotting.

What is most shameful about fine dining restaurants is that the Menu is Printed Notice Board, where day after day , week after week and year after year, the chef makes the same dishes over and over again, without experimenting to improve or challenge the menu. This is one reason, if you stay at any five star property, you will find the no one dines in the hotel at all. ( Other then some lunch buffets or weekend buffets and that too is sliding off) One of course, other then the room charge, the hotel believes, it is there opportunity to fleeeeeeeeeeece the visitor away. Secondly , the taste is like a standard kitchen output, as if dining at McDonald's.

Why does the hotel or a fine dining restaurant not show innovation. Why on earth it should have a printed menu and why not a chalk board menu which changes as per the freshness of supplies available that day in the local bazaar.

Secondly, why do restaurants not use technology to present the food. All it needs is a LCD screen, which puts in pictures of the food and you while passing have the right to stop the screen and view further and make up your mind to step in. It does not need a menu to be placed outside the restaurant.

If all it takes a hand phone camera and a small computer to make a global presentation of your food on a blog, then the restaurants have failed miserably to spot the opportunity.

Lastly, if you are a chef yourself, then you know, how much fun is cooking .And with so much of variety thrown in to challenge you, one life is already booked trying all the recipes. For me Sunday is the cooking day and it starts with early walk to the street market, where the village fresh is allowed to be sold in the street market. Fun starts with wetting your fingers with the dew drops on the green leaves and flirting with the vendor girls and negotiating silly prices.

My maid has now become an expert on Indian, Japanese , Italian o and some Middle Eastern Veggie food with all my experimentation.

Food Blogs is a whole new world of ancient art of cooking, which got passed from grand mothers to daughters and is getting carried down. I am also looking further, some day, people will start posting on the ancient medical knowledge which got passed down in the same way. One of my friends mother came out of cancer, as the herbal doctor had a secret recipe.

Herbal Medical Recipes are the next big blog revolution, I look forward to and I am sure so much more will come out of one and every country . Rain Forest blessed countries will have the most unusual stories to tell. My own great grand mother could cure a snake bite with a mantra and some herbs and she wanted to teach this to my mother, who refused , as people told her that she would have to suffer, if she interferes with nature. Others would have been more wiser.

Love you all Food Bloggers and mine will be coming soon under the name " Ghongu-Lu"

Till then, keep reading