Before I begin, I want to comment on yesterday’s post. I think I may have made the wrong message. I recognize that everyone, myself included, must shop at grocery stores to purchase some if not all of our needs. At the same time, I do believe that grocery stores are not in the business of health; they are in the profit-making business. As such, the food-labeling campaign is great for grocers because now more of their packaged products are deemed “healthy.” This is distressing for me. I do not trust grocery stores (unless they are coops with a strong volunteer base.) Grocery stores do not want transparency; they do not want intelligent consumers; they want people to purchase foods based on anything but health considerations. Yes, grocery stores have whole foods, but what percentage of their products are whole fruits and vegetables? I could go on and I won’t. I just want to make clear that I strive to put less of my money in the hands of grocery stores and more in the hands of the producer. In today’s world we can buy our fruits, vegetables, meats and dairy products directly from producers (farmers). That is my goal and I believe that we should all strive to strengthen local economies and local agriculture, etc. (I would love to hear other’s thoughts on this – please comment and let’s hear what you think!)

There are 5 people in the world of food that I consider heroes. Today I want to share these fine individuals with all of you. Some of them you may know or have heard of and some of them may be complete strangers. But these are the people I admire and mention in conversation more than most others. And so, in no particular order, my heroes in food:

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