February 24, 2005
Last Chance to Taste
I began reading Gina Mallet's wistful Last Chance to Taste, about the declining importance of food in our culture.
I'm ambivalent: are we so leisurely that we can inspect and fetishize our food (well, obviously, yes); but so coddled that we have already forgotten than many of our parents' generation, immigrant or no, faced food shortages even relative to their parent's generation? The embargoes and rationing of the Wars; the lack of air shipping;
At the same time, I strongly believe that we must pay close attention to our food sources. We must eat locally-grown and -obtained food, in season and organically grown. I'm all for sushi, but don't like the chemicals added to it so that it retains its colour.
