A Local Market and Some Thoughts About Food
Last weekend began the new season of the Lake Forest Park Commons Farmer’s Market. It wasn’t the largest event but it’s nice to know that local producers will soon be providing us with nature’s bounty. Make sure you stop by the market this season and support local growers. Also, I can’t resist recommending a book that relates directly to purchasing local produce:
Michael Pollan has been writing about “nutirtionsim” (the belief that food can be manufactured and designed for our consumption) for many years. He is considered one of the most well respected critics of this notion. In this book he proposes some magic words to live/eat by: Eat Food, Not to Much, Mainly Plants! I’ve heard several recent interviews with Mr. Pollan. He usually has the host bring in a couple of common food items and then examines the “ingredients.” It’s amazing how much of what we eat simply isn’t food. His litmus test is: if you grandma doesn’t recoginze it, it probably isn’t food! In Defense of Food is a thoughtful, provocative study of our relationship to food. One thing’s certain: he would highly recommend our local market.
