Even though the election and politics have been hot topics for the past year, I have tried to keep political posts out of the site. It isn’t that I don’t have political views, but I see those views the same way people see eggplant: you either agree with me or you don’t, and not much is going to sway you either way.
Sure, I write about serious topics like the economic crisis, the environment, and mental health issues, but I also write about not-so-serious topics like wine, the Chinese New Year and mix tapes. Sometimes I spin some common themes like Organics Week or SweetHearts Week, but for the most part the Bitter/Sweet blog is pretty random. It is meant as an outlet for all the things that annoy or amuse me throughout the day.
Now, if you are paying attention, you probably know how I lean politically. I work in the education field, write about sustainability, and rally against advertising (c’mon, it’s not a big leap). Does that mean I only want a certain type of person reading this site? No, not at all. Food should be a way to bring people together, not pull them apart because of the way they voted.
I grow annoyed with websites and blogs that use the anonymous nature of the Internet to spew political hate (or any other kind of hate, for that matter), especially when that is not the topic of the site. Cooking should not be an elitist activity or reserved for people of certain beliefs or backgrounds, cooking is for everyone to partake and enjoy.
I have no patience for Bitter sites or people who want to turn the Internet into a political mine-field of backlash, rumors, and insults. Believe what you want to believe, your food is still going to taste the same. Cooking is not reserved for the few, it is intended for the masses. And that is as political as I am going to get. In the meantime, love what you cook and cook what you love!
