Comments on: Food Curriculum Project

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:02:59 +0000

This is a subject for potentially endless discovery. One area that has really intrigued me recently is the emerging understanding of how our nutritional patterns have changed dramatically over time, especially in just the past century. Some really great reading out in the blogosphere can be found on this subject. I stumbled upon the whole subject one day in the form of the book by Loren Cordain, “Paleo Diet,” and from there, started reading up on all the research over the past several decades, going clear back to Weston Price, on the subject of nutritional paleoanthropology.

It’s astonishing to realize how much of an uncontrolled human experiment the industrial food system is that we’ve been engaged in, to which we are all unfortunately the unconsenting guinea pigs. More than ever, I come back to the Precautionary Principle, which leads straight back to the immense value of promoting greater knowledge of local food, seed saving, heritage varieties, and traditional folkways, whether in gardening, cooking, food preservation, and so on and on.

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By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:03:10 +0000

Fermentation as a preservation tool. Advances in technology that have made it ‘obsolete’ to most. As well as other ways of preserving food. ‘Preserving Food Without Canning or Freezing’ is a nice short book to browse, mostly recipes. How the advances in technology that made canning and freezing on a large scale possible also changed how people ate.
Power dynamics of how land ownership can affect people’s lives through food and how that has had an impact on communities.
GMOs and global food policies. Communities versus corporations.

oooh.. I like this.

By: caren

caren — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:35:01 +0000

Sounds awesome! Some ideas for food in social studies

Some ideas:

-The importance of agriculture in the economic history of the US.
-The history of agriculture in the US as it relates to the availability of different food types would be great. You could cover everything from pioneer farmers to the dust bowl to the rise of industrial agriculture and factory farming.
-Migration the impact of food culture in receiving countries
-Food and international trade over time