Perfect and ideal - is there a perfect geometrical shape or is there perfect crystal of ice asks Smilla, protagonist in the book of Peter Hoeg. Platonistic way she answers that yes there is in level of ideas which should´nt be taken a part of the reality --it is just a another dimension of beeing. If we can imagine it why should it be less real than the so called real objects we can touch, feel and smell - besides ideas, imagination are also a part what we could call - making the real - which is constructed of everything we have already been through which our mind with a help of imagination and ideas recreats. But to go one step further there is the level of ideal which also connects to something which is not yet but is becoming --in the other words future and its possible outcomes.
Now coming back to perfect meal. To follow the what was just written - perfect meal exist in our minds and is very possible but the ideal or perfect is connected to various factors - ingredients, logistics, ethical side of food industry, chefs idea of perfect meal, over all understanding of food culture and its newest inventions, customer's ideas of perfect meal, politics of taste and the list goes on....
