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  • From: KNat <knat AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Let them garden!
  • Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:25:25 -0600

Marie McHarry wrote:
On 11/16/06, Kathyann<knat AT sprintmail.com> wrote:
My point is, the skill level of what to do with a potato is way down.
If we don't allow immigrants who have agriculture in their upbringing to
be among our impoverished populace they will starve.
When I wrote that I thought about the assumption that the people in
question had some way to cook food, but since the report was talking
about people who only intermittently are without food presumably this
population do have stoves.

You don't need an agricultural background to cook a potato though you
do need either the gas or electricity turned on so the stove will
work.
That's why I mentioned it. I thought that before I got to trying to include whole foods into our food pantry. Countless adults have never seen someone cook a potato. Even those who know from working in fast food places that lettuce comes in heads only think of potatoes as coming in slices from a bag. Salads are often trucked in in plastic so they may have never seen a lettuce head either. It took me awhile to realize with the number of city people around here that going to the county fair was like going to the Natural History Museum to see a stuffed bear. No concept of relationship to our life. Plastic fruit models are necessary in the schools for students to pass the match-name-to-picture part of standardized testing. It's not just having the place to cook. They don't know that they don't know how. Free food distributed at the end of a cooking class is all that makes sense to me, so far. We're a long way from the garden.

Kathyann

Kathyann




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