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Cooking as a food security issue?
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Liz has posed a good question about food security: what does it mean to me? I really had to think about that for a little bit. One of the reasons has to do with the fact that I've always had the luxury of having things to eat. There were some times growing up when our cupboards weren't stocked and I can definitely recall times in grad school when I counted every penny to get a meal, but the times where financial options made the choices thin, I thankfully HAD options.

One of the things that helped me out was the fact that I learned to cook from a very young age. I would pester my mother and grandmother to let me help them cook. I was probably more trouble than help, but it taught me a lot about how to prepare food and gave me the confidence to go into a grocery store and a kitchen and actually create something. Many people today don't have this experience. They fear the kitchen. Kraft Dinner is not cooking in my books. Nor is it when you put sliced wieners in it. Cooking means creating, experimenting, having fun and turning raw separate ingredients into a new transformed whole -- another version of systems thinking in practice I suppose.

If you've never had a chance to learn to cook, your food security issues are more serious. Yes, there is the entire raw foods option, which has benefits. But that can get pretty tiresome without a LOT of creativity -- creativity that requires time, commitment and access to a diversity of ingredients that, for the reasons that Liz mentioned, are not always present.

Monica's announcement about the talk coming up at OISE points to organizations that are providing healthy food choice options. I wonder if any of the speakers know of some good recipes to create with that food?

February 27, 2009 | 10:17 PM Comments  0 comments

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