All Blog Posts

My new favorite book

My new favorite book is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle from Barbara Kingsolver. I have always been a person that loves food, but I am starting to appreciate more and more that these days, farmers are the rock stars, not chefs.

I am incredibly lucky to live in an area that grows a lot of its own food. If the entire world were to plunge into a deep spiral of financial troubles and that finite resource we call gasoline were to dry up, Oregonians, for the most part, would still be able to eat!

Sure, it would be harder to get things from farm to table, but we could all grow food in our back yards, too, to supplement the crisis because we get so much rain. In the sunny desert, it may be beautiful, but as this book mentions, those cities are just living on borrowed water. And time.

Did you know that a recent issue of Inc. magazine is touting the global water crisis as the next big thing, just like “plastics” was in the movie “The Graduate?” Getting access to potable water is getting harder every day – about one in six people in this world have no access to clean and safe drinking water.

If we continue to follow the current trend, by the year 2025 two thirds of the people in this world will not have sufficient access to clean water. Hence the opportunity to create machines that desalinate, divert, and filter the water we do have.

Local food systems, in addition to conservation of all that we have (water, energy, etc.), is imperative in this continually evolving world. I plan to make it my mission to educate people just how important this is, just as Barbara Kingsolver is doing.

© 2010 Sassafras Catering, Portland, Oregon.
Please contact us at 503.985.6450