Comments on: Dark Days #2: Thanksgiving http://everythingfeedsprocess.com/2009/11/27/dark-days-2-thanksgiving/ here is where it comes together Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 9to5poet http://everythingfeedsprocess.com/2009/11/27/dark-days-2-thanksgiving/#comment-191 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:20:36 +0000 http://everythingfeedsprocess.com/?p=267#comment-191 I appreciate that information, Catherine. I did read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, but it was at least one to two years ago. Considering the relative weight of my combined spices (probably less than half an ounce), I doubt that it had a huge impact. Thanks for your input!

]]> By: Catherine Fitchett http://everythingfeedsprocess.com/2009/11/27/dark-days-2-thanksgiving/#comment-190 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:58:15 +0000 http://everythingfeedsprocess.com/?p=267#comment-190 Actually, it’s unlikely those spices travelled on an airplane. Air freight is expensive, and generally only used for perishable foods (such as the Californian nectarines and peaches that arrive in New Zealand supermarkets in the middle of winter). Shipping, on the other hand, is very fuel efficient, which is why I don’t feel too guilty about eating bananas – you can tell from the price here that they are not airfreighted! Your spices probably travelled by a combination of sea freight and then train or truck.
Have you read Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable,Miracle”? In it she suggests that if you are needing to use some non-local ingredients, dried are the best to choose – as in your spices, dried beans etc – because you are not paying to ship all that water.

(No Thanksgiving here – a pity – if we can adopt all the less appealing aspects of American culture, why not giving thanks?)

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