My Food Adventures

Contents

Who?

Two facts have led me to conclude that staying healthy appears to be a subversive act: my mother always following doctors' orders and never being truly well, and finding out that food and pharma corporates determine which bits of research do and don't make it into university textbooks.

Why?

"If only a fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned..." (Dr J Yudkin MD PhD)

What?

"Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food." (Hippocrates)
"Leave our food as natural as possible." (Dr W Kollath)
"Don't eat or drink anything that somebody is advertising" (Dr M-O Bruker)

Hands-on stuff in the kitchen...

"As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists." (Joan Gussow)
"How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?" (Julia Child)

Hands-on stuff in the garden...

When I grew tomatoes in my front garden I had hoped that the local kids would steal some and realise how good a tomato can actually taste. But they didn't. Maybe they trust food only in its cling-wrapped, denatured, processed-to-death form from a supermarket. Besides - what is childhood without stealing apples (okay, tomatoes...) from the neighbour's garden?

Thinking about food and health...

"The carpenter desires timber, the physician disease." (Rig Veda IX. 7.9)
"Never, no never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another." (J C F von Schuller)

Updated: 29 August 2009
Author and Contact: Gunta Andressen