True enough, but we don't have to go back nearly that far to draw a line
where eating far distant foods was a luxury and and option and not an necessity.
That is, here abouts in the 50's and 60's far flung foods, mainly out of
season foods, were available, but they were a rare treat.
From genegerue AT ruralize.com Sun Apr 29 10:16:39 2007Return-Path: <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
. . . Somone (may or may not have observed) "100 years ago everyone was a locavore." . . . . True enough, but we don't have to go back nearly that far to draw a line where eating far distant foods was a luxury and and option and not an necessity. . . .Sometime between then and now all the food for the common masses moved farther and farther away. Now there are no bakeries, no slaughter houses, almost no dairies, and eggs come from several hundred miles away. Heck, even our cornbread and beans are from more than 100 miles away. . . . I would suggest a view of our eating history not just as local diet vs imported diet as much as when we became utterly dependent on the imported diet.
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