Re: Re: guests and good food

[Guest guest]

At 12:09 PM 2/9/2004, you wrote:

>Wow, totally whatever indeed.

>

>When I have guests over I lecture endlessly about every ingredient

>though: " these sprouts are still growing as they go into your

>mouth... " , " this soup has 32 ingredients and began life with the 40-

>hour cooking of a wild deer carcass... " , " eat slowly so you don't

>miss the strawberry-flavored section of this raw oyster... " , and so

>on. Also, I usually crack a young coconut in front of guests to

>serve the fresh coconut water and oftentimes give them their first

>witness of such fun.

see? i love to do that too! i love to talk about our milk and our animals

and what things came from our garden and how we preserved them and

lacto-fermentation and whatever else happens to be at the table. and i

guess that can get annoying or whatever to people who don't care, and i was

even trying to moderate! but they TOTALLY were not into it.

>I'll paste this from a post I wrote last week to RawDairy:

>

>I just wanted to share an anecdote about milk flavor. A while ago

>(during prime fall pasture) I gave a gallon of milk and a quart of

>cream to one of my best friends as a gift. It was organic, raw, 100%

>pasture-fed milk and cream. I was absolutely certain he'd be blown-

>away and have a real milk epiphany, and I had some of the milk from

>the same batch so I knew it was as good as it gets. I was very

>dispirited when the feedback was sort of politely lukewarm, as

>in " yeah, that sure was different " ; his partner used the term " gamey "

>and she recounted an experience of visiting a natural farm somewhere

>and having fresh milk and finding it " gamey " and unpalatable. And

>these are people who are very keen about " enlightened living " in

>general, organic foods, sustainability, etc, and are also dairy

>consumers, but they couldn't appreciate real milk! It's depressing

yeah!!

the guy who tried just a taste was like, ick! that's like drinking half and

half!

i noted that it is most distinctly NOT like drinking half and half.

>just to think about for me. I mean, it's not like you lend someone

>one of your favorite CDs and they don't like it; that's just normal

>individual variation, but REAL FOOD vs unhealthy, debased, unethical,

>bastardized, degenerate PSEUDO-FOOD! That's a different story.

that's really really true! i don't understand how people can be faced with

this sort of thing and choose the crap instead!! arrrg! or at least that

they don't even appreciate the good stuff...like, whatever, if they still

want doritos, fine. but to not even appreciate it, bleh!

[Guest guest]

Mike-

>When I have guests over I lecture endlessly about every ingredient

>though:

And how many repeat guests do you have? <g>

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[Guest guest]

At 08:43 PM 2/9/2004, you wrote:

>Katja,

>BTW, next time serve them " box macaroni & cheese " and " oodles of

>noodles " instant soup... I'm serious. Tell them " Oh, I already got

>all my nutrients for the day earlier; I figured you wouldn't mind. "

>

>Mike

>SE Pennsylvania

hahahahahahaha!!

or perhaps we should just have our own party. forget local chapters - my

house has slept 30 before, and we've had guests from as far as austrailia.

let's have a list party and there can be pie for everyone!

(leave the pot thread at home though, i'm allergic to marijuana.)