David Taylor - Dogma Dinners

A fast efficient way of eating
from the local superstore.
Find it frozen or
a chilled or chilling recipe
from your convenience mart
“hot” for putting in the microwave.
Full of the knowledge
of diverse cultures
but somehow strangely diluted
by uniformity of mass production
and pandering to popular tastes.
Lacking the love of home cooking
or the immediacy and freshness
of a good restaurant chef.
Like knowledge
which with origins long forgotten
becomes a dogma of a dinner.

David Taylor

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