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- From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] American food attitudes
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:51:13 -0500
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:24:10 -0600, you wrote:
>It always amazes me the customers at Farmers' Market who will pass up the
>beautiful, fully ripe, wonderfully fragrant tomatoes for those that are at
>best half-ripe. but, knowing that they will be there, we always have a box
>or two of under-ripe tomatoes - and we never take them home. Education is
>our job as much as growing the wonderful food - but sometimes it is a little
>discouraging trying to convince the American palate.
>
My husband eats what I would consider unripe tomatoes and
unripe bananas - given a choice, he'll take the unripe ones.
Strange.
But: given a choice of supermarket tomatoes and *real*
tomatoes, he does indeed know the difference.
Pat
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"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
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RE: [Market-farming] American food attitudes,
Wiediger, Alison, 03/29/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] American food attitudes, Pat Meadows, 03/29/2004
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