This is a question I asked myself the other day. For the majority of the human existence on this planet we lived without refrigeration. Our great grandparents did it – how? In the United States we have some of the largest refridgerators and freezers in the world – why?
I found out that often what is stored in your fridge comes down to cultural or even family habits.
One of the biggest complaints I hear when it comes to buying fresh or shopping local is the expense. Well I am here to tell you that shopping at the farmer’s market doesn’t have to be expensive.
Our farmlands are the last redoubt of gentler capitalism. A dozen is inevitably a baker’s dozen, and the numbers on the scale always seem to be rounded down. We’ve bought fish on the promise to pay later; flowers by karmic donation; honey from an unattended stall.
That’s what Alisa Smith says in Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
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