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| Carrots from my garden. Guess I didn't thin them enough. Still, they're tasty. |
I've done all the research. I've read all of Michael Pollan's books (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, Food Rules...ok, I watched The Botany of Desire which is almost like reading the book). I've watched Food, Inc. and King Corn. I understand the insidious horrors of GMOs (damn you Monsanto!) and abhor the unnatural practice of feeding cattle grain. I know about the Dirty Dozen (top twelve foods to buy organic). But eating right, buying only grass fed beef (I know...make sure it's 100%), getting those organic eggs and soy milk is really expensive. Sure it was easy when we had two incomes. But I left my job as a school librarian to get back to the public library. Unfortunately nobody is hiring. An indefinite period of unemployment looms before me. Is it possible to eat with integrity on just one income? I'm willing to give it a try.
Here are the things I've got going for me: 1) I've been pinching pennies the last 6 months and I've got a little bit of savings; 2) Most of the time it's just the two of us (my husband Steve and me)...not sure if we could do this if the girls were still at home (Rebecca lives in Oakland; Laura is away at school); 3) We live on the Central Coast of California where there is a farmer's market every freakin day of the week; 4) We have our own veggie garden; 5) I love to cook and quite honestly have a knack for creating meals out of practically nothing.
I'm not a writer, though I like to write. I don't have a fancy camera and no food stylist so what you see is basically right from my kitchen or my yard. This blog is going to be about recipes, books, information I've discovered while researching, my garden, musings and frustrations, and hopefully, a success story. I don't imagine that this will be a Julie/Julia Project (with me as Julie and Michael Pollan as Julia) though if someone wants to make a movie about my discoveries I wouldn't complain (I think Catherine Zeta Jones would be a good choice to play me; not too sure who who would play Pollan). If I'm the only one who ever reads this, that's ok by me. Writing helps me feel focused and productive...I can only crochet so many pillows.
