Tropophilia: Sunday Cooking…With the Internet
Katherine
· 1 year ago
You are definitely one of the best cook's that I know, but I wonder what you served with this soup? fresh bread?
Jarred Taylor
· 1 year ago
Hmmm, the galette sounds tasty and doable. So let it be written, so let it be done. I'll have to come see you and Kat down in NC this summer and make it there.
Taylor
· 1 year ago
It's a deal. If you make the trip, I'll cook anything you want to accompany your desert.
He's one of my favorites--I possibly watch too much of the Food Network. Thanks for the links!
Jarred Taylor
· 1 year ago
I hear cactus goes good with deserts.
Ashish
· 1 year ago
Taylor, you should try some vegetarian or vegan cooking. I can assure you that you don't have to sacrifice flavor or taste when you make cruelty-free choices at grocery stores and restaurants!
As the unsustainability and cruelty of factory farming becomes more and more immediate--see, for example, the recent beef recall, which was the largest in U.S. history--isn't it incumbent on those of us who regard ourselves as conscientious consumers to, as Gandhi put it, be the change we want to see in the world? You always come across as sensitive and well-informed, so I hope you'll make the compassionate choice in the future.
Joel
· 1 year ago
Ashish, I quote Nellie McKay to you:
"Feminists don't have a sense of humor / Feminists and / Vegetarians...."
:D
Joel
· 1 year ago
Also, wasn't Gandhi, it was Obama.
Ashish
· 1 year ago
Dude, did you not see Kucinich on Colbert a while back? Vegans have mad comedic skillz.
Taylor
· 1 year ago
Ashish, I hear what you're saying. But I'm not likely to become a vegan any time soon. I believe in healthy moderation: I eat meat about 8-10 times a week (out of a typical 21-meal week); when I do eat meat I try to make informed choices and seek out items like organic lamb, pasture-raised beef and free-range poultry; I buy local fruits and vegetables whenever possible; I bake my own bread and take care to eat well while being conscious of my choices.
I understand that you and others view eating meat as unconscionable, and I respect that. But I try to do it in as thoughtfully as possible. I'm in no way perfect, and I'm a product of a broken food system that rewards institutional farms and industrial meat production. I acknowledge that, but I've made the choice to eat meat and I'm trying to use my dollars to support local, natural food whenever possible.
Ashish
· 1 year ago
Taylor-- I'm glad you try to buy humanely raised meat. While I do think the case against eating meat is strong, I think the case against factory farming is simply overwhelming.
By the way, since this blog is largely devoted to the incredible opportunities technological advances afford us, it is worth pointing out that factory farming is one of the best examples of the ways in which technology can actually make our lives more convenient while simultaneously making our society unambiguously worse off as a moral entity.
Joel-- Check out Kucinich's appearance on The Colbert Report from a few months back. It's probably one of the best comedic performances by a vegan in TV history (okay, so maybe "comedic performance by a vegan" won't be an Emmy category any time soon, but still...)
I completely agree with your assessment of the ways technology makes food production and distribution much more convenient for consumers while creating a host of ethics and sustainability issues.
But I also think it's important to think about the ways technology may also represent ways out of the industrial farming and livestock rearing mess we're in. Right now, it's through willful ignorance alone that folks can't uncover local farmers' markets (http://www.localharvest.org/), and the barriers to market entry for small, local producers of fruits, vegetables, and meat are lower than they've been since industrial farming became the norm. The internet opens up a wealth of niche markets that were previously isolated to the point of economic inviability.
Sure, the situation is still dire in many ways...but the local food movement is growing and is aided in large part by the internet.
Ashish
· 1 year ago
It occurred to me that I would be remiss if I didn't give a nod to The Meatrix in this thread.
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He's one of my favorites--I possibly watch too much of the Food Network. Thanks for the links!
http://www.vegcooking.com/
As the unsustainability and cruelty of factory farming becomes more and more immediate--see, for example, the recent beef recall, which was the largest in U.S. history--isn't it incumbent on those of us who regard ourselves as conscientious consumers to, as Gandhi put it, be the change we want to see in the world? You always come across as sensitive and well-informed, so I hope you'll make the compassionate choice in the future.
"Feminists don't have a sense of humor / Feminists and / Vegetarians...."
:D
I understand that you and others view eating meat as unconscionable, and I respect that. But I try to do it in as thoughtfully as possible. I'm in no way perfect, and I'm a product of a broken food system that rewards institutional farms and industrial meat production. I acknowledge that, but I've made the choice to eat meat and I'm trying to use my dollars to support local, natural food whenever possible.
I'm glad you try to buy humanely raised meat. While I do think the case against eating meat is strong, I think the case against factory farming is simply overwhelming.
By the way, since this blog is largely devoted to the incredible opportunities technological advances afford us, it is worth pointing out that factory farming is one of the best examples of the ways in which technology can actually make our lives more convenient while simultaneously making our society unambiguously worse off as a moral entity.
Joel--
Check out Kucinich's appearance on The Colbert Report from a few months back. It's probably one of the best comedic performances by a vegan in TV history (okay, so maybe "comedic performance by a vegan" won't be an Emmy category any time soon, but still...)
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/10/d...
But I also think it's important to think about the ways technology may also represent ways out of the industrial farming and livestock rearing mess we're in. Right now, it's through willful ignorance alone that folks can't uncover local farmers' markets (http://www.localharvest.org/), and the barriers to market entry for small, local producers of fruits, vegetables, and meat are lower than they've been since industrial farming became the norm. The internet opens up a wealth of niche markets that were previously isolated to the point of economic inviability.
Sure, the situation is still dire in many ways...but the local food movement is growing and is aided in large part by the internet.
http://www.themeatrix.com/
http://www.themeatrix.com/