Miller Magazine Issue:114 June 2019

57 COVER STORY JUNE 2019 Wisdom was the greatest talisman of the woman. Be- cause she was responsible from protecting home and lo- oking after children when her man went hunting. She was the observer of the nature. Observer of spring rains, ant nests, working bees, seed’s journey to offshoot and harvest day and night, summer or winter, for thousands of year relentlessly. As she knows and understands the nature better, she built the sculpture of her wisdom. As geography became the destiny, the humankind achieved to comply with the nature, to take roots, produce and become richer thanks to wisdom of the woman. She was the one always leavening the culture at the table she set and in the farmland she cultivated. Access to food is a fundamental human right and go- vernments guarantee this for everybody. On the other hand, the gastronomy means eating-drinking culture and it is closely related with the economy. Governments recently pay great importance to gastronomy to stand out in tourism and create value. Thus, the gastronomy is driven by certain trends which change every year all over the world. Those trends are determined by a small circle and lobby activities are planned to support them. Medical doctors, nutritionists, Hollywood stars, opinion leaders, social media stars… They talk about the same trend. What a coincidence! But in fact, they all serve a well-planned economic policy. Yes, I am going to talk about ancestry seeds. But this issue is a bit complex and it is not limited with Turkey. In recent years, ancestry seed is among the trending to- pics. Concepts like ‘from field to fork’, ‘farmer markets’, ‘young farmers’ are generally in the same trend packa- ge we usually encounter. In 1950’s Hollywood films and America serials were about families with many children. Those families had tidy houses with washing machines, dish washers etc. Nowadays, the trend is gastronomy. Clean, delicious, good food; return to the nature; esca- ping from the city life, healthy diets became the subje- ct of Hollywood movies. Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Eat Drink Man Woman, Reservations as well as Turkish movie Issız Adam can be shown as examples. How they define the love was also cool. World-renowned chef Hasan remem- bers that one day his mother said him: “Sea urchins taste