I've been talking with some of you about this book, a read that I strongly recommend for those who have a curious palate. Food has been on my mind a lot lately as I'm considering different lifestyle choices & how to be prepared for marriage. After all, we do eat three times every single day, and yet how many people care to know what they are actually eating (food is a lot more complicated these days). If nothing else, it has spurred me on to dream of what impact I can have on the future of our food. Knowledge is so powerful that it causes people to do one of two things : run or change. Mr. Pollan states that many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world. One of my favorite lines...."But in the end this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kind of pleasures that are only deepened by knowing."
Here's a quick drive-by....these quotes are stuck in my head as I try to put my new knowledge into action.
** "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
** "So that's us: processed corn, walking."
** "Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do."
** "While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest. "
** "The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat."
Outrageous confetti //
The Confetti System....now that's one way to throw a party!
Outrageous deals (craft away!) // SAVE-ON-CRAFTS
Outrageous truth // For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world---our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world EXCEPT the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ** 1 John 5.3-5
