A Food Revolution…
So, guess what we have been duped. A while now we have been told that fast is better, bigger is better, its an ingrained mentality that has served us so well in the past. So well that it has blinded us to the cliff fast approaching in the not so distant future.
There is revolution slowly simmering in the midst of this little world we call New York, that hopefully will slow and eventually change the way we see food, eat food and cook food. A shift away from the old age industrial practice of treating food as a commodity and reconnecting with food more as a relationship between our bodies and this little chunk of rock we call Earth. How it starts is as simple as sitting down around the dinner table and enjoying a real meal.
Our choice is the most powerful weapon we have in a food industry geared for profit and making the choice to buy food that has not been abused, forced or manipulated is the first act to signal change.
The irony of the whole system is that- as the “most developed community” in the planet we have endangered ourselves the most as we have strayed the farthest from our own kitchens and dinner tables. The reality is we cannot continue to sustain our current mode of delivering food to the masses. A shift in the way we eat has to occur to implement the kind of changes needed to salvage our relationship with our planet. The powers that be will not sway until we as collective make it our priority first, to affect their bottom line.
What does that mean, it means using your own jurisprudence in buying only “real” food. Food that not only satisfy the senses but nourishes our bodies the way it was meant to be nourished. Free of chemicals, abuse and manipulation. Buy from local markets, or go to the grocer that understands that food is not just dollars and cents but rather Food is something we put in our bodies that may or may not adversely affect our own well being.
The trick for being a good cook is simply a matter of coaxing the best out of your ingredients. The only way to get the best tasting carrots for dinner is to try and obtain the best possible tasting carrots to start. It is as simple and as complex as a Choice. The fate of how we are going to be eating and nourishing ourselves into the next century hang on your answer to the question, “ hmmm, what am I going to have for dinner?”
"Find the shortest, simplest way between Earth, the hands and the mouth"