The New York Times today profiles an emerging and intriguing cultural movement: "pirate" restaurants. A healthy step in the right direction.
A favorite phrase of mine is "shelf life, or your life" referring to the fact that food with a long shelf life is dead food -- and suggesting you may end up sick or dead if you eat it. Another such phrase is "if it doesn't spoil don't eat it; if it does spoil, eat it before it spoils." Real food is, in some sense, alive. Preserved food, has no life giving force to it, just empty calories, preservatives, chemical flavorings and colorings. The only canned food in our house is wild caught salmon, wild caught sardines, organic tomato paste and organic chili beans. We buy these at Whole Foods Market and are fortunate to have a HUGE (and hugely popular) new WFM just down the road. Over the past ten years we have seen the interest in real food skyrocket as people begin to realize that what goes their mouth can have serious consequences.
