{"id":1439,"date":"2012-09-25T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T15:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2012-09-25T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T15:31:45","slug":"food-day-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/food-day-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Day Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Food<\/a>Food Day is my kind of day–a day to celebrate food that is safe, healthful, affordable, local, seasonal and most of all delightfully delicious.\u00a0 All over the country, there will be potlucks, film screenings, talks, food drives and other events in honor of Food Day.\u00a0 Despite my best intentions to help organize some events, time kept slipping away.\u00a0 Some soul-searching finally revealed the culprit:\u00a0 My own food related activities!<\/p>\n

Autumn is the time when seasonal eaters are crazily strategizing and mobilizing to put away autumn’s harvest and fill pantries and freezers for the long cold, brown months ahead.\u00a0 It’s a busy, busy time–so busy that it took a while to realize why I can’t do more to organize outside events, i.e., because I’m completely filled doing Food Day every day, in my own kitchen!<\/p>\n

So instead of organizing an event, my contribution will be a 30-day countdown of blog posts from now until October 24, about what it looks like to do, be and live Food Day every day.<\/p>\n

The point is that Food Day for me is about not only events but about dreaming and envisioning a day when everyone can access, make and enjoy good, safe, scrumptious, health-giving food.\u00a0 My professional and personal journey over the last 20 years has revealed that to get from here to there we need a new food system.\u00a0 Wow, that sounds big.\u00a0 What does that look like?\u00a0 How can we do it?\u00a0 What values will drive this change?<\/p>\n

Showing what a new food system might look like is what this blog is about.\u00a0 It’s exciting, empowering and engaging.\u00a0 Can everyone do what I do?\u00a0 That’s not the point.\u00a0 Read the posts without any “shoulds” or “oughta’s,” but simply for information, encouragement, maybe even a little entertainment.\u00a0 If any of the ideas change your intentions, you can trust that your everyday food world will follow suit.\u00a0 Just a little more thought and attention given to what’s on our plates and we’re on the way to a new food world.<\/p>\n

Maybe you have some ideas of what a new food world looks like.\u00a0 Share your Food Day Every Day thoughts, experiences and photos.<\/p>\n

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Food Day Every Day starts with the meals we make each day.\u00a0 What a powerful tool for change!\u00a0 Just by\u00a0 making careful choices about the foods we prepare and eat, we can be healthier ourselves–and see a healthier environment, community and local economy.\u00a0 Here we have a kale salad made with kale from my garden and saut\u00e9ed pears from Colorado’s western slope.\u00a0 The pasta sauce features eggplant, tomatoes, onion and garlic from my CSA, plus a green pepper I found hidden in the kale patch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Food Day happens on October 24.\u00a0 Read more about Food Day on the national level <\/a>and how to become involved in Boulder County’s Food Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Food Day is my kind of day–a day to celebrate food that is safe, healthful, affordable, local, seasonal and most of all delightfully delicious.\u00a0 All over the country, there will be potlucks, film screenings, talks, food drives and other events in honor of Food Day.\u00a0 Despite my best intentions to help organize some events, time … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}