Sunset magazine in the New York Times. Among the magazines delivered to my mother's parents house were two that I can, without question identify and remember. There were mountains of others but Sunset and Downeast were what I remember. Maybe because for some time the mail lady stuffed them in our mailbox on the dead end street growing up.
So I read that NY Times article, and was transported immediately back to California. All the good parts about it. Both my mother and father grew up in that state, my dad's mom still lives in the bay area on one of the few pieces of bedrock in the region.
Hell with the disappearance of Gourmet maybe Sunset would be a good replacement. And yes, the first really cool morning I'm thinking about warm and sunny California...
It is hard to explain that sort of feeling, maybe it is something that happens when you start your 4th decades on this planet... The Downeast reference, yeah growing up looking through those pages set me dreaming, owning my own Hinckley and an Island with a lighthouse in Penobscot bay... Yeah, my career goals didn't track well with my youthful dreaming, I suppose I should have gone into professional gambling right out of college instead of being a microscope jockey. Things would have been different, maybe I'd be sailing every weekend instead of trying to race a bicycle.
Too late to turn back time, no Ctrl-Alt-Delete in life.
LINK 2
Bittman tweeted this article this monring. (yeah twitter's good for getting targeted info - one day i'll get a hand held computer that has a phone on it and carry those updates with me, maybe, I do kind of like having a phone that is only a phone).
He also tweeted about the CDC prediction that at the current race 1 in 3 people will have type 2 diabetes by 2050. I think that is like the report from a cycling advocacy group in 2000 saying all the petroleum resources would run out by 2010. People are still using Gasoline as fast as they can buy it.
Type 2 is pretty scary, in that it is totally and completely preventable, treatable and curable. Yes. THERE IS A CURE! (eat well, exercise and get to a healthy weight). AMAZING - someone should go on the morning news programs and say something like that. I know i know people struggle with weight. But they struggle with cooking, with finding time to exercise, with with with with... and then they all stay up late watching TV/movies on demand and have to rush around.
Sorry, got some editorializing in there. Wow. Me? Editorialize? NO F'n way.
Oh about that Walmart/big ag article I started Link 2 with. Crazy. I laugh at the corn growers attempted add campaign "sweet surprise" because, yes I joined the public mocking of them. And I think there is enough web/marketing/media savy in their opponents toolbox that big ag is going to have trouble, even with 30 million in (m)ad money. Hell take that 30 mil and stick it into improving the public school food system so our kids aren't so fat and it isn't an issue for those who feel drawn to serve this country to join the service. Different issue I know.
But really can you separate the Type 2 problem and Monsanto/BigAg? More calories for less money? Wait, don't we have a problem with too many calories?
Link 3(ish)
So I've pulled in references from my bipolar upbringing (PacNW vs Downeast) - and here's an article from Detroit. Not nearly as compelling as the first link or as important as the group of links between...
but I spent enough time in the troubled state of Michigan that part of me will always relate to that state.
Link 4 or so
The going Local part of the title. Comes from here but does tie in to the walmart article.
It isn't so much about going local as thinking about it, but it is a fun article about the push towards more self sustainability. Sadly for those residents of Providence, chickens are NOT allowed, it doesn't say anything about my town though, lets see if i can keep my kids from finding out.
See, I knew the food label was going to be a problem. I had resisted for a while, now that I've flipped the switch, I keep pushing towards it, i need to beat myself up on the bike, debating bringing the trainer with me to the city when I have to take my oldest to dance and doing intervals in the parking lot with the iPod instead of looping on the BLVD with the cars and no tunes.
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Excellent post. I wouldn't have clicked on it from Reader if it wasn't for Detroit in the title. Had Detroit been missing, I'm glad to know I would been able to keep up via the food label. Please don't give up the food label!
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