Re: slow food

SereneBabe wrote:
On Nov 30, 4:39 pm, Towse <s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Nate Keller's cooking dinner for me: <http://slowfoodnorcal.com/blog/?p=17>

Ohhhhh, my latest passion...local foods appreciation. Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle rocked my world. I've always been annoyed by
environmentalists, since my draw is towards more directly working for
social justice with people as the center. Of course, I've wised up
over the past decade to realize it's all the same. Can't save the
earth without saving the people, can't save the people without saving
the earth, and all that.

Are you involved in the NorCal Slow Food? Or do you just like the
blog?

Didn't know about the blog until I was looking for a link that showed my dinner plans tonight.

We don't belong to Slow Food, although we may some day. We did visit HQ in Bra, Italy, a few years back and got lunch and the whole spiel. The idea behind the organization has merit.

As to the fundraiser dinner tonight, unfortunately, the "locally caught" crab tonight may be locally caught, but probably not by our local crabbers, who voluntary stopped crabbing after the oil spill and held off starting again until the state gave them the post-spill go-ahead. The state cleared crab for trapping just yesterday. Today's too early to have set pots, pulled pots and delivered contents to the table.

Our "locally caught" crab will most likely have been caught by non-local crabbers, who have been working miles offshore, scooping up the crabs and delivering their catch to wholesalers down the coast south of here. Non-local crabbers didn't need to bring their boats with wet live-crab tanks into the Bay to deliver to the wharf.

(Why the local crabbers didn't do the same --i.e. avoid the markets at the wharf and instead sell to buyers at Half Moon Bay or Monterey -- is a ??? that I don't know the answer to.)

Will Slow Food NorCal use crab caught by non-local crabbers? We shall see what happens at the planned crab feed/Portuguese style dinner tonight.

I consider this very writing-related, by the way (not that I'm keeping
score, truly), because one of the almost-there essays in my outer
brain is about eating local as a path towards social justice.


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Sal

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