...than we are the food that goes into our bodies.
How can this be? “Are you not more valuable than they?” to shamelessly plagiarize the Sermon on the Mount.
Seriously though, how can this be? Maybe because nutrition science seems so, well, complicated. But really, it’s not. Michael Pollan has a wonderful series of books and I have linked to his website on this blog. In one of them, Food Rules, he makes this simple statement. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Let’s stay away from the processed stuff. Let’s eat locally so that we support our neighbors and get our produce fresher (Did you know that mushrooms lose most of their flavor within 3 days of harvesting? Think those California ‘rooms are as tasty as they could be?) Let’s spend more time in our kitchens!
I know this is difficult (at least the spending time in the kitchen…after all, there are only so many hours in the day). My “aha’ moment came in a discussion with my youngest child. I was talking about some changes that we were going to make in our home and he asked me if that meant I was going to be cooking more again (because of life-stuff I had been running on auto-pilot in a lot of ways). When I nodded in reply he exclaimed, “YES!!!”
The recipes you’ll find on this blog will attempt to feature local meat and produce, and I’ll try to steer clear from processed food as much as possible. Good food starts with good ingredients. If you can’t pronounce it, maybe you shouldn’t be eating it. Or as Michael Pollan says, “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
