Alimentary Fragment

Gastronomy: astronomy with a capital G. Related to God. The divine science. The depth of hunger but the height of taste. If there is one link twining through human history it is the stomach, the shape of which resembles a fetus at its embarking point. Go so far as to say we proceed from the belly. Gastronomy asks the pertinent question: What are the components of a wise stomach? Heraclitus: "It is divine, the seat of reason, made not of beer." Thus every gastronaut is confronted by this multifaceted but mysterious repository. If not beer, then plastic or waxpaper? Surely not flesh. Phenomenological study bears out the latter and describes an aura of interior emission that eludes all scholarship; Borborygmus, thus called by St Webster, is in man but not of him. Flesh may only produce flesh, therefore the stomach, producing such inhuman product, cannot be human and cannot either be made of human substance. What, then? The question haunts history, more than a noise, a disease of silence.