Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Book Review Plenty: "One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally"
I am nearing the end of an incredible journey with a couple in their mid-thirties who has thrived on eating only food within 100 miles of their home. The lessons they have learned and the wisdom they have shared with their readers is life changing to anyone who chooses to flip through the pages of their year long adventure through farmlands and personal struggle with each other.
While I was reading on my nifty kindle app which highlights whatever you want it to as you go and then displays what you highlighted or bookmarked, I took note of some incredible quotes.
"Despite eating more than ever before, out culture may be the only one in human history to value food so little."
I hold this to be true as well, in certain areas of the world. For example, the city that is becoming my new home, Portland, and greater parts of Oregon and Washington both have strong communities that take into consideration how are food effects our environment and ourselves.
"Our inability to feed the world is not an agricultural failure; it is a failure both of imagination and of kindness"
I am a huge advocate for ending child hunger, it saddens me to learn about the hundreds of children who are not sure if they get to eat today. I have seen and heard the excuses about crops failing and not having the ability to distribute the food, but frankly it is all bull crap. Now, the excerpt behind this quote was that we throw away food or leave food in the dirt that is still perfectly capable of being turned into a meal. We are losing our imagination to create beautiful and nutritious food out of the greens of a radish or squash blossoms.
"A study in the Untied kingdom showed that the amount of time people now spend driving to the supermarket, looking for parking, and wandering the lengthy aisles in search of frozen pizzas or pre-mixed salads is nearly equal to that spent preparing food from scratch twenty years ago."
Having a farmers market near your home (particularly within walking distance) is quite a blessing. I have been trying to avoid corporate grocery stores as much as possible and make all my salads, and pizzas from scratch. FYI: making a pizza from scratch on your Friday night is way more fun than ordering it or sliding a boxed pizza in the oven!
I have come to find that books about food can be very educational and entertaining at the same time. This book cost me $7.99 in the kindle store and I plan to read more in due time.
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