Sunday, January 01, 2006
Hummus and World Peace, how do they go together?
Okay, I know I compare hummus to all sorts of things far greater in importance than the simple garbonzo, but humor me and let me show you how hummus and world peace coincide:
I find it particularly important to point out that although my ultimate goal is the perfect hummus, I recognize that it is no more likely to actually find that than it is for all conflict to end on earth and for us to achieve peace on earth. That doesn’t mean I can’t try.
Peace and harmony are a true blending of opposing, coninciding, similar and completely opposite goals, ideals, people and cultures. Not the melding into one, merely the coexistence and acceptance. For example, not that hunter gatherers in southern Africa should become South Africans, but rather that they should maintain themselves and be accepted while recognizing the outsiders’ points of view. This seems simple, but it is not.
What is simple, however, is that, like humanity, hummus is about coexistence of markedly different forces. Ingredients, not people and flavors, not cultures must come together without becoming each other.
I find it particularly important to point out that although my ultimate goal is the perfect hummus, I recognize that it is no more likely to actually find that than it is for all conflict to end on earth and for us to achieve peace on earth. That doesn’t mean I can’t try.
Peace and harmony are a true blending of opposing, coninciding, similar and completely opposite goals, ideals, people and cultures. Not the melding into one, merely the coexistence and acceptance. For example, not that hunter gatherers in southern Africa should become South Africans, but rather that they should maintain themselves and be accepted while recognizing the outsiders’ points of view. This seems simple, but it is not.
What is simple, however, is that, like humanity, hummus is about coexistence of markedly different forces. Ingredients, not people and flavors, not cultures must come together without becoming each other.
