Most mornings I get forwards from friends and colleagues who want to share something—a ridiculous joke, something about how Sarah Palin sucks, a recipe, or a petition to sign to solve some world injustice. This morning I received an email from a friend that I think is really important. It’s so important I want to share it with you here…
“October as “shop for breast cancer awareness” makes me very uncomfortable. Especially when products like Yoplait market their product with a pink ribbon to sell more yogurt to make a measly donation to Komen WHILE having a vile product. I love the Breast Cancer Action organization’s Think Before you Pink campaign highlighting the hypocrisy of companies claiming to raise awareness about BC while earning huge returns and not actually doing much to stop or cure the disease.”
Basically Yoplait yogurt, like many other industrially produced dairy products, contains milk from cows jnjected with rbgh, a bovine growth hormone that has many alarming health concerns, including breast cancer. To create Breast Cancer Awareness and raise “funds,” Yoplait donates 10 cents per every lid customers send back to the Susan Komen Foundation. WTF. If I send you my lid from your potentially cancer-causing product, you will donate 10 cents. Yeah, no thanks. As stated above in my friend’s email, the Think Before You Pink campaign is really valuable as it educates us to see past the pink ribbons everywhere, and decide which companies and organizations are really helping out. Click here to say no to the bullshit Yoplait is pulling.
sometimes there are gems that are not local—sweet little treasures produced in a far corner of the world, using ancient methods and time honored processes. in this case, i present to you jujube honey, an utterly unusual tasting honey from the high atlas mountains of morocco. i had the honor of tasting this crazy honey at this year’s fancy food show. i haven’t forgotten it since. there is merit, value, and deliciousness to preserve when we taste and promote a little gem such as this.
…but lots of people are afraid of it and think it will make them totally fat. Even Mark Bittman of NY Times fame, thinks it’s devoid of all nutrition. Ok, so if you eat tons of cheapy white flour pasta at 4am with butter all over it (um, my diet during my freshman year of college, yikes) you may get fat/be a nutritionally devoid person. But if you eat pasta in moderation, make your own with great ingredients and hearty flour, or purchse great pasta made with durum wheat flour (or better yet, whole wheat) from local spots such as the AMAZING Severino Pasta, you are good to go.
And don’t forget the pleasure principal of food—something that is equally important to all the good nutrition and good politics that go along with eating quality stuff. Eating pasta is so comforting and so delicious, that it is worth it. For more on the innocent ways of pasta check out this article.
everybody likes some golden brown goodness. even if you are fire roasting some wierdo chemical white pillow thing. ‘mallows are deeelish. now brought to you is the completely assinine invention the super spinmallow that spins your marshmallow at 153 rpm in order to achieve that golden brown glow we all covet. i bet my girl ali would love this shit.
triple eye. a collective of elder rastafarian men who have been making fruit wines, natural juices, roots tonics, and ital (vegetarian) food since the beginning of time in jamaica. pictured here, one of their original triple eye t shirts. i wear it all the time despite the fact that it is now almost like a rag. so much love that direction.
Most times you will find here musings on all things food, but this election is too important, and I am way too beside myself to avoid posting on the most recent stages of this campaign.
I am so sick of candidates, especially Sarah Palin and John Mcain, trying to convince the American public that they are regular, everyday people—a hockey mom and a guy who shares the same experiences as a typical blue collar worker—in order to get our vote. UMMMM…I do not want a hockey mom coming anywhere close to the leader of the free world!! I would prefer my president to be a genius, with an unbelievable understanding of the issues and how to handle them. Not a regular, typical dude who is apparently “just like me.” (That “just like me” shit bothers me to no end as well— I don’t even know the rules to ice hockey, and I can’t relate to a sport fisherman just as much as I don’t know how to ride an elephant. I grew up in Philly. You people don’t speak to someone “just like me.”) This recent article by Judith Warner in the NY Times really address this issue in a hard hitting, succinct way. Here is a quote from the article that I find to be particularly on point.
“Why does this woman – who to some of us seems as fake as they can come, with her delicate infant son hauled out night after night under the klieg lights and her pregnant teenage daughter shamelessly instrumentalized for political purposes — deserve, to a unique extent among political women, to rank as so “real”? Because the Republicans, very clearly, believe that real people are idiots.”
Why do these candidates think “real” people should be elected to the most important office in the world in the most important election of our time?!?!
i recently bought a neat book called “the fruit hunters,” one ex-hipster’s love letter to the craziest most exotics fruits in the world and the crazy exotic people who love them and tend to them. from one fruit that “courses with vanilla,” to ones that make you trip your face off, not one fruit is left unpicked.
i am completely offended by sarah palin. i usually don’t like to quote p. diddy, but as he recently said: john mcain, you are bugging the f*&!k out. and at any rate her favorite food is moose. dead serious. UGH!
pictured here is the king of wild blueberries at wild blueberry land in washington county, maine. 90% of the world’s wild blueberries are produced here in this mystical, beyond rural county where the only things to see are sweeping coastlines, bountiful blueberry barrens, and yes, wild blueberry land. it is this strange blue orb rising out of the distance, selling all things blueberry including berry-stained t-shirts and $1 muffins.
agricultural
acts
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delicious
preparations.
you can find me
many places but try www.sweetpeanourishment.com
&
www.bananatreeconsulting.com
for starters.
