Thursday, June 26, 2014

Chef Dan Barber Urges a Reboot of Our Food System

Barber: Buckwheat and millet, barley and rye ... I could go on. How many kidney beans do you eat? Not enough. If you think back to truly sustainable ecologies, cuisines evolved from what the land could provide. French peasant cuisine. Italian cuisine. Cantonese cuisine. All the cuisines in India. When Parmesan cheese was invented in Italy, what did they do with the whey? They fed it to pigs, and made prosciutto de Parma. The pigs are fattened on the whey — that's what makes prosciutto so delicious — but it's a waste product of the cheese.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/chef-dan-barber-urges-reboot-food-system-24310124?page=2

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