![]() ![]() ![]() Mindsets are beginning to shift from eating what is convenient to what is grown locally. has sought to rectify this chemical assassination. ![]() With the advent of food chemistry in the 1960's, the local supermarket morphed into a garishly lit big box store lined with waxy boxes of processed food in carnival colors, stamped "fortified with the essential nutrients." Pesticides and growth-enhancing treatment have yielded produce sections bursting with vegetables and fruits year-round harvested from far-flung places where a growing season amounts to no more than what is picked between sprayings. Americans are long-divorced from the agrarian sensibilities of their ancestors in regard to food choices. Reflection on one's culinary peccadillos does not often extend beyond the end of one's fork. The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love, By Kristin Kimball ![]()
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