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Article: Slow food--A Celebration of Life.
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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At its most primitive level, food is simply the fuel that keeps body and soul together. It's an animal necessity, a mechanical requirement.
Only when people have enough to eat can they afford to enjoy food. That's when variety, cooking, feasts -- and civilization -- come into being.
Homesteaders, whether they realize it or not, take food a step further. They go beyond the physical realm.
In today's hectic world, eating seems to be a necessary evil. Grocery shopping is a chore (and gardening is worse), few people want to cook, most don't want to "waste time" eating, and almost no one thinks about what they eat.
Small wonder, then, that ...