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  • From: "Hook Family" <ghf AT townisp.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Economic-sustain.ag
  • Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:01:10 -0500

Mark said:
"Having said this, I've also noticed some social problems that absolutely
amaze me, and could be at the very root of our problems. Young people don't
know what to do with what we produce! Hard to believe, but true."


Its not just the very young either but also some adults. I'd be interested
to know if this lack of cooking knowledge and increase in take out
corresponds at all to most schools dropping Home Ec. Both Male and Female
students can benefit from Home Ec and shop type courses.

Many heads of household don't know how to cook well and therefore their
offspring do not as well. I joined cooking (and later sewing)4-h at 8, buy
the time I got to HS home ec class I already knew the material :). My
mother also lets us cook. My specialty at that point was sweets :)
Favorites were a Chocolate Cake you mixed in the pan and Whoopie pies.
I could cook meal type food as an older teenager. Food in my household is
home prepared most of the time, although we had great take out Chinese last
night.

My older son live about 4 years in an apartment dorm at college and
developed into a very good cook. He also views it as experimentation and
has cooked things I've never have like fried duck (very good). He had to
move out of state so I think the push to raise birds beyond chickens won't
happen but humorously he told me he'd search various urban chicken sites on
the web should he ever live somewhere where he could keep a small flock,
cracked me up. He also likes to raised plants in pots (apartment living).
This is a kid when he lived here who sat in front of a computer screen.
Example sometimes oozes through.
Youngest son is living in off campus housing and I lived in fear he was only
to cook tv dinners, but he basically cooks a meat, starch and veggie every
night and just told me last night that they had pizza one evening and he
felt he didn't feel as well because he didn't get any veggies. He said he
needs his veggies, where did this kid hatch from, guess all those farm grown
foods oozed in. Both ds are big big fans of the free range eggs.

That was a long way to say that I do think a big part of the prob is lack of
cooking knowledge. I write a weekly newsletter for my CSA and always
include recipes and often simple instructions for example how to cook winter
squash. Beth





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