HOW WE EAT: A TALE OF TWO SYSTEMS

Confessions of an Unapologetic Food Zealot!

Who? Alison Bell, Chef, Teacher, MA in Gastronomy.

What? “one who engages warmly in a cause” as opposed to

“ a fanatical partisan!”

When? September 1996

Where? GE Foods Presentation, Vancouver

Why? Have you got a couple of hours?

The Language of Local/Global:

Global Food System Local Food System Local vs Regional Foodshed Locavore Glocal Terroir Community Supported Agriculture Civic Agriculture Food Citizenship Orthorexic

Questioning: The Global Food System “Counting all the people negatively affected by the

global food system…we are really the majority of the people in the world.”

Is the Global Food System inherently bad?

Questioning: The Local Food System “food system localization

may remake our troubled world in modest and valuable ways.” Hinnrichs 2000.

Is the Local Food System necessarily good?

Taste Education: Global/Local Taste the organic carrot from

California. Taste the carrot from Brown’s Farm in

Edgewater. What are your thoughts? Repeat the same exercise with the

California tomato and the tomato from Edible Acres in Windermere.

Food for thought…Local or Global??

A Tale of Two Systems:

Global/Local

“It was the best of times and the worst of times…”

Charles Dickens

So, let’s consider the next 2 photos…

Reflections…

What did these pictures say to you about the food?

Which food did you find more appealing?

Which pictures do you think represented a “local food system?” a “global food system?”

The Life Cycle of a Loaf: Global

Dempster’s, er, McGavn’s, er, Maple Leaf… 100% Whole Wheat Bread… Where do you get your ingredients?

“North America”

http://www.dempsters.ca/products/Wholegrains_WholeWheat.html

Wonderbread, er Weston’s… Where do you source your whole wheat flour?

?????

The Life Cycle of a Loaf: Local

Wheat from McLean’s Farm in

Edgewater

Water from Invermere

Eggs from Chinook Meadows Farm in

Edgewater

Honey from Jubilee Mountain Apiary in

Spillimacheen

Milk from D Dutchman Dairy in

Sicamous

The Foodie Quiz Section: a little pre-testing

http://www.thegreenguide.com/food/buying/sustainable-food-quiz

http://www.thegreenguide.com/food/buying/organic-foodie-quiz

http://www.thegreenguide.com/food/buying/food-crisis-quiz

Food Memories

Share the most memorable food experience you had as a child. This experience will have left you with that unmistakable feeling of nostalgia and comfort.

Mapping a Mid-Day Meal

Daily SpecialTiger Shrimp and Brie Quesadilla

Grilled Asparagus and Blood Orange Salad

Chai-Spiced Crème Brulee

List the countries where you think the ingredients from this meal may have been

produced.

Ethics of Eating

Eat Real/Eat Local: Get Real?

http://www.eatrealeatlocal.ca/#

http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/services/corporate-ownership.html

The Way We Eat : Why our Food Choices Matter

:Singer and Mason

…Eating Locally/Eating Ethically

How We Eat: A Tale of Two Systems

Re-localizing the food system, one farm at a time…

http://www.ffcfprojects.ca/Heroes/Heroes.html

How We Eat was brought to you by…

The Columbia Valley Botanical Gardens and Centre for Sustainable Living.

The Community Greenhouse

College of the Rockies, Invermere