11-30-2010, 01:27 PM
Bob,
I'm not sure why you are framing your argument using the assumption that healthy local food would taste "like its made from a pack of bird seeds and grass clippings" and imported processed food would automatically taste better. Your rhetoric sounds good, but just creates a straw man for you to knock down. Local healthy foods can taste just as good as some chemically preserved weeks old import from the mainland, in fact from my experience they can taste far better.
My favorite bakery on the planet is in Eugene, Oregon. Sweet Life specializes in vegan, organic, deserts made using healthy local ingredients and no artificial flavors or colors. They are out the door packed every Thanksgiving with people picking up holiday pies and desserts because they are soooooo outrageously good. They have also won the contest that is the "Olympics of chocolate" held in Paris, France, competing against top pastry chefs from all over the world, several times. Their vegan spelt marionberry muffins are healthy, use local ingredients, and are the best tasting muffins I've ever had.
I am an omnivorous former professional baker and total muffin snob, so the only reason I would eat one was because they taste good!
Carol
I'm not sure why you are framing your argument using the assumption that healthy local food would taste "like its made from a pack of bird seeds and grass clippings" and imported processed food would automatically taste better. Your rhetoric sounds good, but just creates a straw man for you to knock down. Local healthy foods can taste just as good as some chemically preserved weeks old import from the mainland, in fact from my experience they can taste far better.
My favorite bakery on the planet is in Eugene, Oregon. Sweet Life specializes in vegan, organic, deserts made using healthy local ingredients and no artificial flavors or colors. They are out the door packed every Thanksgiving with people picking up holiday pies and desserts because they are soooooo outrageously good. They have also won the contest that is the "Olympics of chocolate" held in Paris, France, competing against top pastry chefs from all over the world, several times. Their vegan spelt marionberry muffins are healthy, use local ingredients, and are the best tasting muffins I've ever had.
I am an omnivorous former professional baker and total muffin snob, so the only reason I would eat one was because they taste good!
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb