Thursday, August 04, 2005

To make more intellectually interesting my decision to pursue la vie culinaire as a late life career I have read much about the 'real food' movement, slow food, sustainable food, organic food. There are a million think tanks and interest groups and alternative organizations that have made little jabs at the agribusiness giants like ConAgra,Monsanto, DuPont; if they are serious however they need to organize something more comprehensive.

Everyone cheerfully eating those bags of potato chips fried in pesticide-laden cottonseed oil; and since when were we meant to eat cotton? And so on and so forth.