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I’m so proud, yay! one day! hahahaha

day two commence!

so self congratulatory but i too have to be my own biggest fan here ;)

today i had-

an apple, vanilla yogurt, wintermelon soup, a plate of green veg (chinese brocoli blanched in water, oil with oyster sauce), a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread, a glass of milk, a glass of orange juice, unagi donburi for dinner and two pieces of salmon sushi, tofu, endamame, miso soup with seaweed, and water melon as my midnight snack 

not too shabbbbyy i’ll say ;)

(yes yes, i said no meat, not vegan — that’s a another week, as i learn to practice getting my proteins from other sources, versus, what momma feeds me that i eat without question because she made it with love and it’s already made)

i was watching anthony bourdain’s no reservations earlier, and he was in crete, greece. a) i love his show, and any traveling food journalism show for that matter, b) everything i’ve been thinking about about ancient civilizations lately was inadvertently segmented on the show — how poorer people of these lands eat from their “backyards” as in anything grown on the country side — which usually includes green, green, greens, how local fishing on the coasts give local fishermen and chefs lots to work with – but they don’t whored it, and how if they want meat, they kill it themselves.

there was a whole segment on the killing of a lamb, shaving it, singing during the killing, and using EVERY LITTLE BIT including all it’s organs — how OFFAL! :) 

and i noticed something — the actual slitting of the poor lamb’s neck was obviously censored out of the show, re edited, bleeped out, however you want to say it. and i was almost disappointed. why was it not shown? (other than the obvious reason of them getting a million PETA compliants most likely on every airing of the show – i remember this happening with the food network and lobsters during an iron chef episode and now they never show any chef killing any thing live for food) but really, how does this help? why is it ok for us NOT to watch an animal get killed if we practice this act every day for our food? de-animalizing the living thing makes it ok to show it as food? 

ironically i was “Dragged to Hell” as i like to call it yesterday to the horror movie currently in theaters with the exact punny name. So why do people PAY money to go see gore, blood and gutts, and ridiculous fight scenes between humans and animals tempting death and playing with spirits, yet animal kill scenes that we as humans practice everyday are still censored out!? “OMG she has to sacrifice her kitty cat so that her spirit will be saved!” cut to her grabbing a kitchen knife, cut to her burrying her cat with blood on her shirt and the crazy look on her face.

hmmm. ridiculous, no?

i always wonder what it would be like to witness and actually participate in the act of hunting. i wonder if i’ll be able to cook the animal and eat it too. why is it ok when the animal or sea creature is “already dead”? i too have shed a many tears for the 12 lobsters i have had to kill for my job, to date. in fact, it’s story is what got me into grad school. lol.

sometimes i guess i just want to run away and go live in the country side for a period of time and grow my own food. maybe i should make this my thesis! hahaha, because it will be like resetting my cultural clock and pulling myself away from all this tweeting speed of light technology and industrial living that i’ve grown up with. funny huh? it’s like the country mouse vs city mouse kind of thing. and my internal country mouse is jumping up and down wanting to be heard again, and i’ve played in the city for so long… :)

Cultural, local, sustainable living at it’s best, simple times exemplified by one of the oldest civilization of the world like greece. so inspiring, and also makes me laugh at how humans got the idea of drinking, and making alcohol. what’s one to do on a farm all day long after the work is done? almost every meal was paired with alkie, and lots of drinking to liven up the mood of such cultural atmospheres all across the world (for those familiar with no reservations ;) haha he drinks everywhere he goes! and they offer him culturally different types of alcohol every where he lands, kind of a universal, and kind of hilarious — i mean, it took one monk to make a mistake, to make champagne right?)

well, i’m ok with that, if life’s all about drinking and eating,

then that is gluttony at it’s best.

day two here i come!

Tags: Meatless week