Allergies

We had about 15 allergies at work tonight. So many people with food allergies, why? Isnt it alarming that we are becoming more and more allergic as a society to what we put in our bodies. I have a theory that we are becoming to sanitized as a society. I always say that I feed my kids a little dirt each day to help their bodies learn how to fight off infection. I think that there might actually be something to that. I am not discounting the real pain that people feel due to allergies, I truly am compasionate about them now. I used to lump them in with vegetarians ( who I have come to respect through personal growth) as a group who I had no real interest in helping. But I look at it entirely differently now. Just to see the joy that a person has that can actually eat a decent meal without fear is enough to give me a passion for it. I have learned a great deal about cooking and flavors by having to substitute or completely omit ingredients in classic preparations.

I digress from my original thought of why we are becoming more allergic. I was talking to some of my guys and they said there is hardly any allergies in Mexico. They say that if you get a rash or something there, people think that the cooking was bad. They think we complain to much. We should be happy to have such a wide variety of food. I agree. I MAKE my kids taste everything I cook at home. They may say they dont like it the first 4-5 times they try it but eventually they come around to at least tolerating it. I dont let them off that easy with "I dont like it!" I cant stand when they say something is disgusting, when it is not, perhaps they dont care for it but it is not like its a pile of steaming guts!!!!! Thats disgusting.