{"id":132,"date":"2007-02-01T19:13:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T00:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2007-02-01T19:16:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T00:16:45","slug":"the-song-went-on-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/the-song-went-on-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"the song went on forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Pollan had another big long food article<\/a> in the Times magazine last weekend. We read Omnivore’s Dilemma<\/a>, are pretty much in on board with the gospel of Alice Waters<\/a>, and shop at the food coop<\/a> and farmer’s market, and try to eat local. We’re not vegetarian*, but we do eat much much less meat than we used to and many more vegetables. So, you know, we’re down with the first sentence of the article: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”**<\/p>\n

* HELL no! Before I die I would like my last meals to be the braised rabbit with oil cured olives and polenta from al di la<\/a>, and the shack burger from Shake Shack<\/a>, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

** Except for Gus, who would subsist entirely on a diet of bread, cheese, meat, and sweets if we let him. He seriously has not touched a vegetable in longer than I can remember. But that’s a whole other post, by golly, and a rabbit*** hole I don’t want to fall into.<\/p>\n

*** Mmmm…rabbit.<\/p>\n

But the thing I’m realizing recently is that one can only truly follow the ways of the PollanWaters (har) if one resides in California or some other such year-round growing place. Here in the Northeast, it is damn hard to find locally grown green leafy veggies this time of year. I loves me some greens: spinach, chard, beet, arugula, watercress, radish, collard, kale, mustard, cabbage…yum. There’s nothing better than a little chard sauteed in olive oil with a little garlic.<\/p>\n

So we buy the greens imported from Cali. I guess we could relocate to more ethically satisfy our greens habit, but I’m just not into moving to a tectonically active area. Until we retire, that is, and then it will probably be New Zealand or Iceland anyway.<\/p>\n

Plus, man, those PollanWaters must have their own personal greens-washing slaves or something. Here we do not, and it makes me kind of grumpy to have to spend half an hour washing greens. We used to buy the prewashed bagged kind but the last time we did I opened the bag and a large, gorgeous leaf of spinach was pierced by a FEATHER. From a BIRD! So grody, so depressing, such a waste of money. We didn’t stop to check if the rest of the bird was in there somewhere, just chucked it in the garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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