I’ve got to thinking that Fusion may be just the answer to the world’s power shortage problem. Calm down – I’m not thinking about nuclear fusion for electrical power! I’m thinking about Fusion foods, which offer new ways of combining a wide range of ingredients, and the possibilities of growing people-power in an emerging food system.
Upscale chefs have created some confusion about Fusion by using the word to brand their out-of-the-box and expensive approach to mixing ingredients from many lands and cultures. Food history shows that Fusion cooking came out of the cultural inventions and sharing that happened whenever ordinary people from different places met, when working as sailors and migrant labourers, or thrown together in servitude. What else is Creole cuisine, concocted from the cooking pots of African slaves and indigenous peoples of the Caribbean during the 1500s, but Fusion?
