- The high poverty rate in the U.S., juxtaposed with food/nutrition education and awareness efforts like Nourish. Where do food insecurity and Whole Foods overlap, if at all? The problem is one of both about quantity and quality.
- Slow Food $5 Challenge - September 17 (This Saturday): I signed up! Will you? I'm not sure if I'll sign up to join one of the local potluck gatherings; maybe it will just be me, my one plate of food, and Con Law. Whatever it may be, I know based on experience that this is not a difficult challenge. I often find myself looking at my dinner, thinking, "This cost way less than a McDonald's meal, and it doesn't leave me feeling ill."
- The decline of cooking and time poverty, in contrast with this hipster and/or rural return of vegetable gardening and home food preservation. Can young professionals get involved, or are we destined to years of take-out sushi?
- Awesome posters like this one.
- How much I agree with Ruth Reichl's musings on famous chefs and artisans, concomitant with the decline of cooking.
- As usual, pondering the many meanings embodied in what we buy, what we eat: the political, the health concerns, socioeconomics, ethics, religious, social, pleasure principle, and so on. What does it meant to say you like good food?
