Amuse-bouche: Week of 03/04/10
If what you eat has become your religion, take care to serve up your message peacefully and palatably. Because it’s just food.
As the essay competition draws to an end (Just over a week left! Submissions are due Friday, March 12!) I thought that this quote really summed up much of what we are trying to achieve through the competition. Food plays important nutritional, social, and cultural roles in our lives. There are those who don’t think twice before lifting their forks and there are those who can’t eat a bite without first giving it a second thought. By sharing our ideas of what makes food good in a creative and collaborative manner, we open up the discourse in a constructive way.
To read the rest of the article, written by Eric Burkett for Grist, check out Food as America’s Newest Religion.
And a few other items of note off the interweb menu:
Organic advocates optimistic about new USDA rules
Do new rules for meat and dairy finally provide substance to the USDA Organic certification process?
Did the discovery of cooking make us human?
I haven’t had the chance to read Wrangham’s Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human yet, but this BBC article provides a brief introduction to the idea that cooking is responsible for the physiological changes that distinguish us from our primate ancestors.
The Future of School Lunch reform
A brief summary of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the sincere need for reform.
For those of our “visual learners” check out School Lunch Found Guilty a photoblog of school lunches written by a 6th grade class with discerning tastes. Granted, they are advocating for Doritos and Hi-C to replace the amorphous meals offered, but we need to start somewhere.
