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  • From: "Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Why the Hype About Local Food May Be More than Just a Trend
  • Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:35:18 -0400

Hi Liz,
So is cream cheese.  I have my Dad's Mom's old 1800s cookbook/housekeeping book.  It tells how to make cream cheese and they refer to it as the poor man's cheese.

On 8/5/08, Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
At 12:47 AM 8/5/2008, you wrote:

Good article, but I had to smile at the identification of arugula and
goat cheese with effete connoisseurs. In most parts of the world,
those, or the local equivalent thereof, are peasant foods,.


Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com



>I am sure that certain elements of the Slow Food world will behave
>like effete connoisseurs and fawn over the local argula and goat
>cheese. But really, is that so bad? Why shouldn't people start to
>express their affection and appreciation for local food? If cultural
>snobs and the wealthy can embrace a populist trend without coopting
>it -- validating it with their presence and boosting it with their
>dollars -- I say, bring 'em on. Let everyone celebrate the taste of
>local food -- and then move on to the political and economic
>realities that sustain it.


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