Masters Food?

Diabetes and heart disease is killing our people!

The numbers within our community is daunting and I have heard many claim it is due to the food we eat. On one of my many food shopping sprees I went to the meat/fish market and as I waited on line the wheels in my head started turning. Beef ribs, pig feet, ox tail, pig ear and tongue, tripe, if you're reading this you have indulged in at least one of these items as some of the most delicious meals you have ever had! But looking at it from a health standpoint aside from these pieces being extremely fatty they are far from the best cuts of meat.

So in doing some research the theory is slaves and poor people couldn't afford the best of the best and were given left overs and scraps of an animal after the prime pieces went to those in charge.

I gotten say for a moment this put a smile on my face... damn my ancestors are something else. To make ribs or pig feet taste good and not look disguising is talent!

But with limited resources and cooking items salt and sauces became the key elements of many of these dishes. I watched an interview with Whoopie Goldberg where she said she refuse to eat foods with sauces on them because you lose the flavor of what you are eating. Also that sauces originate from the French who used sauces to disguise rancid meat being that at that time there was no refrigeration. So although we were able to make due with what we had and develop foods that are now classic family dishes we have also pass down unbeknown to many bad eating habits that now have heighten high cholesterol and high blood pressure, leading to diabetes and heart disease.

Both plaque my family but whether or not these diseases are hereditary or you are the first in your family to develop them you really are what you eat. Now I don't discourage us from one day to the next to stop eating things we know and love but lets eat and cook a little bit wiser. Less salt, fat, sauce etc and remember everything in moderation is fine ;).

CSR