Comments on: Blessed Unrest – Insight #2

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:11:12 +0000

Looks like something I have to add to my reading list as well! It’s amazing what passes off as “food” these days. I love dining in Europe because they take the time to really prepare and enjoy food. It’s always a community affair starting at the local market to the very end…fresh prepared food ready to eat and surrounded by family and friends. We’ve really turned in to a fast food society. Whatever happened to community meals?

By: Global Patriot

Global Patriot — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:46:11 +0000

Beth, you’re changes in lifestyle set an example for all to follow – get closer to the earth and consume natural food instead of processed.

Robin, that must have been an amazing experience, like the world’s biggest farmers market!

Jeremy, I think I’m in the middle on the “virtual taste” reference. While we can’t actually taste online (even by licking our monitors you’re spot on in stating that writing about food and wine provides the mental stimulation which encourages people to go out and experience what is being written about – same as with restaurant reviews. A good writer can do wonders in promoting a return to healthier and more social eating & drinking.

By: Jeremy Parzen

Jeremy Parzen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:54:37 +0000

This is a great post and Blessed Unrest just got added to my reading list. I love and entirely agree with the first paragraph in the passage quoted above. I disagree, however, with the thought that there is no virtual world of taste: more than ever before, food and wine blogging opens up a vicarious world of sensation. In many ways, the blogosphere is helping to preserve indigenous culinary traditions by documenting them and exposing readers to worlds they would otherwise never know. No one would ever write a book like Moby Dick again (one of my favorite novels of all time; think of each chapter like a blog post!). They don’t need to: we have the blogosphere! Seriously, thanks for bringing this book to my attention. I wouldn’t have known about it if not for being a reader of your blog…

By: robin stark

robin stark — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:48:31 +0000

Two years ago I went to Turin for the International Slow Food festival. Imagine two huge convention halls full of beekeepers, cheesemakers, vintners and chocolatiers, all following organic principals. The food was out of this world, but even better was meeting hundreds of like-minded food artisans.

By: Beth from Avenue Z

Beth from Avenue Z — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:28:25 +0000

In the past 18 months, I’ve adopted the slow food lifestyle. I eat apples instead of apple danishes. I eat cheese instead of processed cheese food. I buy mangoes from a little stand near my house and pick oranges from my boyfriend’s tree. I don’t keep foods that come in boxes in the house, except cereal, and I choose organic, whole grain.

I’ve never felt better. When I visit my parents’ house, I’m appalled how they can live on pastries from the day-old-donut bin at the grocery store. Papa buys Swanson’s frozen dinners because they’re super cheap, and I don’t think any of their ingredients even resemble real food. I worry about their health since they get so very little nutrition, but I can’t convince them that buying carrots is better than buying almost moldy carrot cake.

Thanks for these book reviews. Sounds like we think alike.