Eating properly.

We slaughter animals, we catch fish, and we eat them. And in the West we eat the meaty, juicy, clean and easy bits. If we eat properly then it shouldn't just be chicken breasts, pork fillet and sirloin steaks on our plates. Eating properly is about learning to eat and appreciate a greater range of food items: chickens' feet, beef tendons, congealed blood, pig intestines, stomachs, and bone marrow are all foods I've enjoyed many times in Hong Kong and Thailand for example, but really have to hunt for in the UK. Beef tendons are so delicious why don't we eat them here in the UK? With beef brisket and vermicelli in noodle soup ('ngau lam mei fun' would be a Cantonese approximation) or fried with flat broad noodles ('hore fun'), the tendons elevate them to another level to be wonderful dishes with the juicy chunks of tendon - like jewels of Marmite jelly - glistening and nestling within the noodles. My palette has lost the yearning for these things, and to eat properly again, rather than going on an offal hunt (in rather expensive places in the UK for example), it would be far better to re-educate it with a prolonged stay somewhere in Asia.