Monday, March 8, 2010

fastfeasts, almonds, CIA, locally sourced, green almonds



Time to search out the quick way to satisfy the urge to cook...and cook...first will be the chore of cleaning out the fridge..what is there...lots of green...avocados that one must surely be past its prime...lettuce...fresh..locally...perhaps one of the things that I am soooo tired of hearing...locally sourced...perhaps if we only bought locally sourced...we could put all the farmers in other countries out of business...raspberries for that favorite desert in the winter...ummmm, no way....years ago..locally sourced meats and foul...perhaps didn't have so many cases of recalled food...we ate fresh and locally sourced for years...food wasn't brought in from countries around the world...even so, do you think we could have locally source food for the multitudes that was affordable for the masses and have the diversity that we have come to love and expect...or is it perhaps just the welloff people that would have the best and the rest of the people would be reduced to having cabbage and potatoes. Perhaps I saw more beautiful and fresh produce in the markets in some foreign lands...perhaps we don't have people to raise those foods here for people who would like to duplicate the foods of foreign peoples...we travel, we eat, we have people who come to live here from all around the world..and they like to cook foods that are familiar..or have eaten in perhaps in Thailand, China, Turkey...what about those fuzzy almonds before the outside turns hard...and you pop the whole thing in your mouth..what a wonderful taste...even I as often as I traveled didn't have them until about 15 years ago..a trip to NY..and then to the arab section of Brooklyn..and there they were..never had seen them..told to pop on in my mouth..I took them back to the CIA where I was in school..of course no one...not even the instructors of mine..had even seen them before...I did find them in Atlanta one time....not so beautiful..rather on the down side of fresh...and certainly not able to be locally sourced...

It is time to think about traveling someplace where the food is different...and somehow, many of our ethnic restaurants though celebrate their heritage...the taste is not the same as in the home country...so many things though named the same have been tailored for the 'american' clientale...and thus we must travel or cook to be able to have that original taste that we love so much...

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