[image: the gaucho, 2005 | a public meat market of syntagma square, athens. the color balance has been saturated with greens to connote a cronenweth technique- an other-wordly, nitrogen-rich green ether seeping from the polarized eurekan clarity of the solitary bulb]
embedded within the problematic notion of a national culinary identity are the dialects, the colloquial, the different layers of reality- with the lingua franca being food. concealed behind the glass, beneath the butcher paper of many markets, and within the tidy rows of our imperial consumerism is the inherent alienation of commodified speciation- the effect our preferences and ideology have on the linkable relationship of our ubiquitous protein sources to the beings from which they arose. what are the effects that this abstracting of life has on our culture's culinary vernacular, on the ways we empathize with the anthropological layers of our world? far from an exception, this market in greece, and many in morocco, provide a clear representation of the being from which we may choose to feed. and more, require of the cook and kitchen a certain skill, commitment, and solidarity.
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