The Future of Food?

It’s not often that I call out someone in the mainstream media writing on nutrition as getting it right. And while I may not agree with everything he says, Mark Bittman has a lot right in his take earlier this month on America’s food supply in an opinion piece he wrote in the New York Times: A Food Manifesto for the Future.

Mr. Bittman has written a number of books on food and cooking over the years in addition to his regular appearance in the pages of the New York Times as a food columnist. He’s got a very popular iPhone app out there based on his book, “How to Cook Everything.” He even has a book called, “How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.” And in his piece earlier this month in the Times, he writes, ” … food and everything surrounding it is a crucial matter of personal and public health, of national and global security. At stake is not only the health of humans but that of the earth.”

Heavy stuff. And you know, I’ve always said that most of us eat because of taste and tradition, and we do it in haste and forget nutrition. This is a message I’ve been hammering on for 30-plus years. I’m trying to get folks to THINK about what they’re eating, why they’re eating it, and what the benefit (or, all too commonly, lack of benefit) of eating something will be. We need to think about what the food we ingest will do to our bodies. And we need to think about our entire food chain and the sources of our food. His column bears your review and consideration.

All the best.