Comments on: Understand and Appreciate Your Food

By: What’s Up Wednesdays: Self-Reflection Edition « Beyond the Rhetoric

What’s Up Wednesdays: Self-Reflection Edition « Beyond the Rhetoric — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:19:58 +0000

[...] with the origins of the ingredients involved. As such, Jeff asserts that we should all strive to understand and appreciate our food. Know how that head of lettuce and rack of lamb got to your dinner table. Recognize food for what [...]

By: Jeff Kee

Jeff Kee — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:54:48 +0000

Damn right I’m right on. I’m not just a pretty face.

By: koko

koko — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:27:28 +0000

Ooh, you are so right! I really agree with this. Not only are we no longer in touch with what “real” food is, we lose the valuable minerals and vitamins that we truly need, by not eating locally, seasonally, and naturally. The composition of the foods is there for a reason- for example, people in hot climates need to eat the fruits naturally grown there for their kidney-cooling qualities. People like us in less-than-tropical climates do not need to eat bananas and mangoes in the middle of winter, flown in from Asia or California. Let alone the chemicals and preservatives on these….
Anyway- good post Jeff!!!