Comments on: Home Grown: Did Jews Start the Food Movement? http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jeff http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8422 Jeff Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:51:42 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8422 Daniel, thanks for the beautiful piece. While on a personal level I feel that my own conscientious consumption stems from my relationship to kashrut, I feel that the new food movement (and specifically the new Jewish food movement) is a backlash to a modern food industry of which the American Jewish community is so firmly ingrained. In the 1950s, for instance, the Orthodox Union funded all of its activities as a result of its hegcshering business for manufactured foods. Jews embraced a modern food system because it made it easier to fit into general society, and that's why we're buying packaged lettuce and kosher oreos to this day; that's why the kosher section in supermarkets is one of the unhealthiest, and why rates of heart disease are so high in the Jewish community. I can go on and on, from plastic dishes to matzoh meal, but I won't. I do believe, however, that we can use these Jewish precepts that you detailed to remedy the situation, which we've begun to do and which is what Hazon and the Jew and the Carrot stand for. So hopefully your optimism and this new movement will spread. I believe they will. Daniel, thanks for the beautiful piece. While on a personal level I feel that my own conscientious consumption stems from my relationship to kashrut, I feel that the new food movement (and specifically the new Jewish food movement) is a backlash to a modern food industry of which the American Jewish community is so firmly ingrained.

In the 1950s, for instance, the Orthodox Union funded all of its activities as a result of its hegcshering business for manufactured foods. Jews embraced a modern food system because it made it easier to fit into general society, and that’s why we’re buying packaged lettuce and kosher oreos to this day; that’s why the kosher section in supermarkets is one of the unhealthiest, and why rates of heart disease are so high in the Jewish community. I can go on and on, from plastic dishes to matzoh meal, but I won’t.

I do believe, however, that we can use these Jewish precepts that you detailed to remedy the situation, which we’ve begun to do and which is what Hazon and the Jew and the Carrot stand for. So hopefully your optimism and this new movement will spread. I believe they will.

]]> By: Debs http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8416 Debs Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:30:02 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8416 I don't keep kosher, although I don't eat pork or shellfish. Still, I think being Jewish has shaped my desire to eat sustainable food. I see kashruth as, broadly, a message that everything one does should be meaningful and intentional. My way of doing that with food is to pay attention to how the food is produced, whether it's sustainable, whether it's local, whether it's wholesome, and of course how it tastes. Debs <a href="http://food.gofrolic.org" rel="nofollow">Food Is Love</a> I don’t keep kosher, although I don’t eat pork or shellfish. Still, I think being Jewish has shaped my desire to eat sustainable food. I see kashruth as, broadly, a message that everything one does should be meaningful and intentional. My way of doing that with food is to pay attention to how the food is produced, whether it’s sustainable, whether it’s local, whether it’s wholesome, and of course how it tastes.

Debs
Food Is Love

]]> By: Lisa http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8403 Lisa Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:27:03 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8403 Daniel- I second what Avigail said. Avigail- Thank you. I've never seen those tattoos but that's funny. Daniel- I second what Avigail said.

Avigail- Thank you. I’ve never seen those tattoos but that’s funny.

]]> By: Avigail http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8398 Avigail Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/home-grown-did-jews-start-the-food-movement/#comment-8398 Bloom - thanks for sharing your thoughts on the blog - well done. Lisa - great image. Reminds me of my Jewish temporary tattoos we got in Jewish Living magazine. Bloom - thanks for sharing your thoughts on the blog - well done.

Lisa - great image. Reminds me of my Jewish temporary tattoos we got in Jewish Living magazine.

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