Food, Glorious Food

As a class, we've been reading "Fast Food Nation," by Eric Schlosser. This expose of the fast food industry has fueled many exciting discussions about the huge impact and implications fast food has had on our own personal lives, our society, and the world.

The last few blogs of this quarter will all center around the role of food in our lives. Blog 6 covers our own thoughts on the place of food in our lives. Be it an excuse for gathering or a vehicle of culture/history or simply something to "refuel" ourselves, everybody eats and you'll see our musings on our own personal relationships with food.

Our last blog of the quarter, Blog 7, will be a collective protest against the fast foods of the world. We will be posting recipes for slow foods, foods made from scratch by human hands and eaten and enjoyed at the table together, that are significant to our families or cultures. Although sometimes it feels that the pressures of time, the overwhelming presence of McDonaldization everywhere as well as economics all cage us in and make us helpless, we can do something. As Malcolm Gladwell points out again and again in his book "The Tipping Point," little things can make a big difference. So we eat in solidarity as our protest. Join us.