Food for thought

As a yellow dog Democrat, it's not often where I can find myself agreeing with some points in an article found in the American Conservative- but there was a link to it that was on Mark Bittman's NYT blog

But read, and enjoy http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_06_30/article.html

I do consider myself quite subversive when I cook dinner and plot ahead to make my lunches and snacks for the week. It's encouraging to me to see that some conservatives would embrace the idea of community gardens, cooking classes in church basements, neighborhood gardens, cooking classes in schools, and promotion of local foods and co-ops.

I liked this quote by Alice Waters, which goes to exactly what I believe:

"Good cooking, she writes in the introduction to her 2007 cookbook, The Art of Simple Food, “can reconnect our families and communities with the most basic human values, provide the deepest delight for all our senses, and assure our well-being for a lifetime.”

And a source that I'll be checking out-

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/series/the_food_chain/index.html

Enjoy- I'm anxious to head home where there is eggplant Parmesan in my future tonight...