Tenets of an eater's manifesto

Jan 12, 2009 12:51

"[I]n our time, cooking from scratch and growing any of your own food qualify as subversive acts."

- From Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, which is definitely the best book I have read in a long time. I highly encourage you all to read it. In the meantime, his tenets on healthy eating:

Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. )

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st_aurafina January 13 2009, 03:44:17 UTC
As part of our "health at every size" lifestyle tweak a few years ago, my partner and I had a close examination of what we put in our mouths. Our lunch and evening meal is almost always cooked from scratch now, and we don't buy pre-prepared foods very often. That thing about shopping at the edges of the supermarket is true - you have to be very canny inside the supermarket - it's one big marketing trap. We've hunted down a good greengrocer, and our local butcher is amazingly good and no more expensive than meat in the supermarket (which apparently, is soaked in water to make it heavier, so you're actually getting less for your money). It's been really fascinating to watch our weekly supermarket shop get smaller and smaller over time.

Corn syrup isn't a common ingredient over here, thank goodness. I have heard it's very, very hard to avoid in foods in North America. I didn't even know what it was until I started reading about glycaemic index, to reduce my diabetes risk.

We have a small garden, though it's mostly for foods that are hard to get in good quality, and also tomatoes. Pretty much everyone I know grows tomatoes, they're so easy and they're so much better than commercially grown tomatoes. Oh, God, there's nothing like a tomato that you just picked off the vine. It's like that bit in the Last Battle, when they eat the Narnian fruit, so good. (I wish mine would grow! It's been so cold until today.)

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