Friends, as we head into #Ramadan, please take special care to CW your posts about #food. Your observant Muslim community-mates will be fasting between sunrise and sunset, and using a CW will make life a little easier for them.
I'm involved in this project to create a commons around growing food.
The plan is to grow stuff that can be easily stored so that we dont have to live close to where the crops are grown and so that we can potentially provide a significant part of our diet.
Not everyone would be involved with their hands in the dirt, but together we'd organise and arrange the production.
My mom used to make something called #Hachee (pronounced hah-shay). 5 large onions, cooked in a bit of butter, a pound (500g) stewing beef coated in flour added to it, let brown thoroughly, add two cups of water (500ml) with a few tablespoons of vinegar, a couple of cloves, a bay leaf, a couple of bouillon cubes, and either a teaspoon of sugar or a couple of slices of apple. Let stew for an hour or so. Serve on mashed potatoes. #Cooking #Food
The other evening came the dreaded moment of choosing delivery dinner #food, and living in Brooklyn you can pretty much have food from about 10 countries a few blocks away. And I hate choosing!
So I came up with a stupid idea: I would get no food including the #letter "I". Why this specific letter? Because I wasn't in the mood for pizza nor Italian, and both words contain an "I".
It turns out many food item names contain an "I", so this turned out pretty successful to curb the amount of choices. Consider this:
No Italian
No Indian
No Mexican
No Thai
No Chinese
No American
No Fries
No Wings
No Pizza
No Bread/Mozzarella Sticks
No Chicken
No Vegetarian
No Quinoa
No Rice
No Ice Cream
No Milkshake
No Swiss Cheese
No Onions (Rings)
No Olives
No Souvlakis
No Sushi
No Sashimi
No Teriyaki
No Hibachi
No Bulgogi
No Ribs
No Mayonnaise
No Pepsi
No *Berries
No Sparkling Water
I ended up ordering a steak burger with cheddar cheese (but no onions nor fries) and a side of Mac&Cheese (although macaroni...).
And for you non native English speakers, what forbidden letter would kill most of the food choices in your #language?
#opensource software became very common. Meanwhile patents are still used to gain more control over our basic needs such as #food.
There's an initative in #germany wanting to change that:
#OpenSourceSeed ๐๐๐ช - Fight market concentration in the seed sector ๐โค - Promote food security through diversity - Restore crop seeds as #commons - Seed must be utilised freely - Use open-source licensing against patents and variety protection ๐โค