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Sic Transit Gloria Locavore!
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 10:51:53 AM PDT
You are becoming a significant voice on this site. I compare you to other posters who have chosen to focus on a single issue area-- people like Jerome a Paris, nyceve, dengre, etc.
Keep it up, we need this information.
by DBunn on Thu May 15, 2008 at 11:09:19 AM PDT
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about these two items, eh? Thanks for the support!
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 11:10:36 AM PDT
nt /s
"It's weird that chairs even exist when you're not sitting in them"-Rogen E: -5.62 S: -5.13
by demotarian on Thu May 15, 2008 at 02:55:50 PM PDT
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:35:45 PM PDT
and wheat is certainly needed for bread...*but* it may be time for people to think beyond the rice/wheat axis and onto things like barley, or quinoa--the lesser known and (sometimes) more nutritious alternatives.
Our economy is a house of cards. Don't breathe.
by Youffraita on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:19:27 PM PDT
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:20:32 PM PDT
protein. It has about twice the amount of protein as does wheat.
by Wings Like Eagles on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:27:38 PM PDT
it's gluten free1 :) Shout out to all the Celiac's out there..
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by librarianman on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:17:31 PM PDT
Says the funny guy who knows and loves two with Celiac.
Bottled hot water for dehydrated babies? WTF?!
by JVolvo on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:59:42 PM PDT
The main problem with our food supply is planting ONE kind of seed or only raising ONE kind of cow.
Diversity is just as necessary in the food supply as it is in your investment portfolio and for the same basic reason.
by karenc13 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:35:32 PM PDT
Agribusiness wants to copyright the one seed, the one animal, so they can corner the profits. Then when disease wipes out that one "product" we starve.
by Tracker on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:46:45 PM PDT
Diversity is the normal way of doing things, both growing and consuming. By changing the natural balance of the earth, we set ourselves up for a disaster.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." ~ Thomas Paine
by trustno1 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 01:07:23 PM PDT
Food intolerances, especially gluten, are thought to be an effect of the mass production of grains, especially wheat products. Something like 90% of our food comes from the following four crops: corn, soy, wheat and rice.
We need to get back to diversifying our diets. Our ancestors would be shocked at our eating habits.
I love quinoa too, but I don't think it can be grown in the Pacific Northwest. We also need to learn how to live more locally as well.
"[People] are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." - James Allen
by gchap33 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 01:42:42 PM PDT
Quinoa flour can be used in wheat-based and gluten-free baking. For the latter, it can be combined with sorghum flour, tapioca, and potato starch to create a nutritious gluten-free baking mix. A suggested mix is three parts quinoa flour, three parts sorghum flour, two parts potato starch, and one part tapioca starch. Quinoa flour can be used as a filling for chocolate as well.
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 02:00:46 PM PDT
get restaurants, and more importantly, fast food chains to adopt the gluten-free baking mix, except for specialty restaurants. And a significant amount of meals in America are eaten outside the home.
"This is not our America and we need to take it back." John Edwards.
by mcmom on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:43:09 PM PDT
of refining the food to death and too much uniformity in the diet for too long.
Democrats give you the Bill of Rights; Republicans sell you a bill of goods!
by barbwires on Thu May 15, 2008 at 02:05:10 PM PDT
refining foods to death so that it can withstand the 3000-5000 mile journey needs to stop. I had a freind who ate only foods within 100 miles of Portland, OR. Her biggest complaint was not being able to find grains. Does anyone know of any grains produced in Northern Cal, Oregon, Washington area?
by gchap33 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:01:59 PM PDT
outside her 100 miles boundary. I would think she could stretch the boundary a little, as eating "Oregon" is pretty darn close to local.
by mcmom on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:44:28 PM PDT
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by dolphin777 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:43:30 PM PDT
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Great documentaries and short films on just the type of news this diary had in mind.
by gchap33 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:49:55 PM PDT
that gave the world the Irish potato famine is now in mass cultivation again.
If you're curious about that potato, when you're at McDonald's, when someone asks you at the window "would you like fries with that?", say yes.
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by alizard on Thu May 15, 2008 at 09:24:37 PM PDT
by dolphin777 on Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:41:12 PM PDT
you've never had one of my breads.
I admit it: I am addicted to high-protein wheat flours.
Je suis inondé de déesses
by Marc in KS on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:43:17 PM PDT
but we must look beyond that. karenc13 has the right idea: "Variety is our only hope of survival."
by Youffraita on Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:44:47 PM PDT
Food of the Gods
by northsylvania on Thu May 15, 2008 at 02:42:49 PM PDT
by Abra Crabcakeya on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:08:01 PM PDT
Take a handful of jumbo (not those horrible porridge) oats in a bowl. Add milk or water to them to get them the right level of dampness (don't soak them down too much or they lose their texture), then sprinkle salt, grind some pepper, put a pat of butter on it and nuke it for a minute. Pull it out of the microwave and make a dent in it with a spoon and break a good free range egg into it. Sprinkle on some more pepper and maybe salt, put a saucer on top of the bowl and nuke some more. Experiment to see how long the second time is. I use about 1 minute, 20 seconds because I like my eggs not quite hard. Most people either grind up oats too finely or overcook them. Oats absorb cholesterol, and if you don't make mush out of them, are pretty tasty.
by northsylvania on Fri May 16, 2008 at 12:18:51 AM PDT
the list of significant news items that will not be reported in the MSM is a whole lot longer than this, Asinus Asinum Fricat! :-D
Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D. 89 days until the '08 elections. Let's paint the country BLUE!
by TrueBlueMajority on Thu May 15, 2008 at 02:19:49 PM PDT
Congress passed a farm bill that included payments to farmers to keep their land out of cultivation?
Patriotism may be the last refuge of scoundrels, but religion is assuredly the first.
by StrayCat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:09:05 PM PDT
EU policy to pay off farmers to keep them quiet.
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:16:48 PM PDT
practice of fattening cattle on grain is ridiculous. Cattle will fatten on grass, their natural food source. As recently as 60+ years ago, beef were sold at age two years, and none were fattened on grain. The argument has been, for decades now, is that consumers won't want meat with yellow fat. And, I also believe that using a food grain for fuel, specifically corn, is a moral issue, not an energy issue.
by mcmom on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:39:59 PM PDT
why do they keep feeding cattle with grain? Laxity and voodoo economics.
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:42:22 PM PDT
wide narrow
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