Comments on: Bringing Sexy Back Down to Earth http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/ on eating one's way around, and back to, the earth Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-33 Anonymous Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:50:00 +0000 http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-33 have you heard the bruno latour joke about the pedofil? have you heard the bruno latour joke about the pedofil?

]]> By: jenny http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-28 jenny Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:59:00 +0000 http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-28 Thanks for your comment, skrev. Your Berry excerpt (from what book?) recalls a complex discussion I had yesterday with a friend writing a dissertation on John Kellogg, and how human health was conceived of in the same terms as environmental health. Which is to say, it was all becoming industrialized when Kellogg was experimenting and creating corn flakes. Berry, and Pollan, always get us out of the proverbial disconnected rut. Thanks for your comment, skrev. Your Berry excerpt (from what book?) recalls a complex discussion I had yesterday with a friend writing a dissertation on John Kellogg, and how human health was conceived of in the same terms as environmental health. Which is to say, it was all becoming industrialized when Kellogg was experimenting and creating corn flakes. Berry, and Pollan, always get us out of the proverbial disconnected rut.

]]> By: skrev http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-27 skrev Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:23:00 +0000 http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-27 How ironic that the least understood (shall we say mysterious?) and perhaps most fundamental aspect of food production may also be regarded as the least sexy. You've posed quite a question with this post. I think Berry and Pollan's call to connectedness may help. The post made me think of this quote from Berry:<br/><br /><br/><i>all bodies, plant, and animal, and human...are indissolubly linked in complex patterns of energy exchange. They die into each other's life, live into each other's death. They do not consume in the sense of using up. They do not produce waste. What they take in they change, but they change it always into a form necessary for its use by a living body of another kind. And this exchange goes on and on, round and round, the Wheel of Life rising out of the soil, descending into it, through the bodies of creatures.<br/><br /><br/>The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.</i> How ironic that the least understood (shall we say mysterious?) and perhaps most fundamental aspect of food production may also be regarded as the least sexy. You’ve posed quite a question with this post. I think Berry and Pollan’s call to connectedness may help. The post made me think of this quote from Berry:

all bodies, plant, and animal, and human…are indissolubly linked in complex patterns of energy exchange. They die into each other’s life, live into each other’s death. They do not consume in the sense of using up. They do not produce waste. What they take in they change, but they change it always into a form necessary for its use by a living body of another kind. And this exchange goes on and on, round and round, the Wheel of Life rising out of the soil, descending into it, through the bodies of creatures.

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

]]> By: taste memory http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-26 taste memory Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:33:00 +0000 http://rootingforfruit.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/bringing-sexy-back-down-to-earth/#comment-26 Wendy Johnson's book + GGZM sounds completely intriguing to me. have always been entranced by various monastaries.....i love the enclosure but love the outside. tho i have read that many monastics say that within the walls of enclosure is freedom ~<br/><br/>lovely writing + insight ;-) Wendy Johnson’s book + GGZM sounds completely intriguing to me. have always been entranced by various monastaries…..i love the enclosure but love the outside. tho i have read that many monastics say that within the walls of enclosure is freedom ~

lovely writing + insight ;-)

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