The Process of Remembering: a photoblog by andrew huth

“Clam Check”

As a society that gets nearly all of our food from a large grocery store, we have lost touch with the origin and the process by which we get that food.  Many of us (including me) have either forgotten or have never known how our food is produced, inventoried, and finally delivered to us (and a whole bunch of other steps in between).  The faces behind the things we consume and the amount of work involved in getting that food are all but a mystery to many of us.  I don’t believe this is a good thing.  Yet, how do we go about changing this fact? Author Barbara Kingsolver, a localvore, tries to buy only locally grown foods when possible to stay more intimately connected with the foods that she consumes as a way to better understand this disconnect between the producers and consumers of it.  This led her to a greater appreciation for and to be more thoughtful about the foods she enjoys.  Upon reflecting on her first year stint as a localvore she found herself asking the question: what is AVAILABLE for me to eat rather than what do I FEEL like eating.  I very much like the thoughtfulness she brought to her daily meal.