One Family’s Experiment: Crap Food vs. Sustainable Food by Sierra Filucci
Danielle Maestretti’s article, reprinted in the latest Utne Journal, is worth a gander…
“A young mother of two, tired of spending her evenings in the kitchen hammering out slow, “sustainable” recipes, recently embarked on an interesting experiment: She and her husband would try one month of quick-and-dirty dinners—“if it came frozen, wrapped in cellophane, in a plastic tub or with a pop top . . . we would buy it and eat it”—followed by one month of ‘the locavore’s dream,’ complete with herb-growing, bean-soaking, and trash-composting.” Read more…
The article is derived from Sierra Filucci’s original,
Fast vs. food
How the sustainable-food movement drove one busy family to the brink and back again
…that appeared in the Sacramento News & Review (article originally appeared in the East Bay Express).
