No Pressure
April 28th, 2006 Caroline
I went to hear Michael Pollan speak about his new book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. He was talking about how our decisions about food are influenced by culture, and then interrupted himself: “Of course, culture is just a fancy way of saying your mom.”
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1. www.carolineandtony.com &&hellip | April 30th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
[...] I’ve always been a pretty careful reader of food labels, but the Michael Pollan talk I went to the other night has renewed my interest in trying to make the food purchases I make good choices for the environment, too. Organic trumps factory-farmed, in most circumstances, and local (because it requires less fossil fuel to get it from the farm to my kitchen) usually trumps organic. OK. So there I was at Trader Joe’s, trying to buy milk. Do I buy the organic milk in paper cartons that I can compost, or the locally produced organic milk in plastic jugs that I can recycle? I went with local, even though I don’t much like the plastic jugs. [...]