Trailer for What's On Your Plate, a flim by Catherine Gund and Aubin Pictures
Not a day goes by that I don't think about what I'm eating, what I'm feeding my family, and how little I know about where our food is from, and who handles it as it moves from place to place.
When I see films like this or read Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, I feel fortunate to have lived in Berkeley for several years and spent many delicious evenings at Alice Waters' restaurant, Chez Panisse.
The first time, I was taken for my 16th birthday by one of my fabulous gay "uncles" named Ivory, whom I lost to AIDS years later. I will always remember him as the person who introduced me to Lillet and the concept of the "prix fixe". It was incredible. We ate rabbit and drank Lillet and then had delicious flourless chocolate ganache.
I love you Ivory!
Anyway.
Now that Waters is advising the White House and transforming public school cafeterias by teaching kids to grow their own lunches, I feel I was there at the beginning-- a part of yet another movement: The Food Movement!
Waters has just joined the Advisory Board for this great film, produced and directed by a friend and fellow co-founder of Third Wave Foundation, Catherine Gund.
I'd love to hear your food stories. We don't have any CSA's here on Maui, or if we do, I need someone out there to tell me about them.
Comments:
Oh this fantastic. Reuters and AP recently squelched the news that high Fructose corn syrup and fructose contain high levels of mercury which is frightening given the autism and mercury links which to my satisfaction have not been 100% ruled out. HF is in EVERYTHING now; girls scout cookies, Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars, Quaker Oatmeal to go bars, Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, Yoplait Strawberry yogurt, Market Pantry Grape Jelly and Coca-Cola of course! The corporate goons have even tried to mess with the neutrality of the wikipedia page. (I'm a walking advert for wikipedia, I know!
This movie is so needed! too many in the good fight movements of yester- year had there health breakdown from bad diet. my older friends on the Left don't want to hear it but it's true.
"A study published in the journal Environmental Health in 2009 [3] [4] found that high-fructose corn syrup was commonly tainted with mercury, and found traces of mercury in many common retail products that contained high-fructose corn syrup as an ingredient. The mercury appears to come from caustic soda and hydrochloric acid, two chemicals used in the manufacture of high-fructose corn syrup that can, depending on their manufacturing process, contain traces of mercury.The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy tested 55 consumer items, finding mercury in one third of the samples ranging from 30 to 350 parts per trillion. The amounts of mercury found was far less than that commonly seen in most fish and seafood. The researchers cautioned that their study was limited. "Ref: McKinney, Matt. For first time, trace amount of mercury found in corn syrup. Star Tribune.
This looks so interesting! I do have to answer one of their questions honestly, though:
Funyun=one of the top ten snack foods of all time, up there with Lays potato chips, puffed cheez doodles, and Fritos.
But, yes, we need to improve what we eat. Of course!
This from a Twitter friend: Find a CSA near you, just add your zip code:
http://www.localharvest.org/search-csa.jsp?scale=&lat=&lon=&x=&y=&ty=6&z...
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