I’m devouring Real Food by Nina Planck, thank you Hudson Library and Historical Society for your delicious selection of current books.
Each sentence is a great, fat, gobbing YES, and I am so glad that I already know a lot of this information, and wish more people would allow themselves to even think outside of the industrialized food box.
Bacon and eggs for brekkie! Cooked in butter!
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
Stories We Need to Know: Reading Your Life Path in Literature by my dear friend Allan Hunter who happens to also be married to my dear, dear, dear friend Cathy Bennett. This one is next on my list!
August 24th, 2006 at 8:19 am
Bacon and eggs for brekkie! Cooked in butter!
Which is what we just had this moment! Twice a week I cook it, I eat it, I feed it to my kids. I’m a heathen!
August 24th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Hey, thanks for the heads up on this! I love to read stuff like this because it’s easy to forget that real food is the only food.
What the rest is, who knows, but it doesn’t look good on us. And it makes us feel bad. And the good news is—real food is sooooo tasty and satisfying. So hooray!
August 24th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
I will be ordering this book, if for nothing else than to justify my bacon and pancakes (made with eggs! and whole milk!) for breakfast habit.
Thanks for something to think about, Kelly.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Well, you know where I stand regarding bacon, eggs, and butter.
I really enjoyed this book; between her book and Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, there’s been some good stuff coming into the mainstream regarding Real Food. I hope some of it sticks.
August 31st, 2006 at 8:11 am
Sweet! Another book on my wishlist!
October 2nd, 2006 at 11:15 am
I went to school with Nina and was lucky enough to enjoy the foods from her parents farm. I love this book.