What's Food

What's Food? Perhaps this sounds like an odd question.

IT’S NOT.
With the social experience of dining with family and friends fading int the distant past as a choice by Western civilization (an oxymoron of terms, unless eating fast, and eating in front of the TV define civilized), we have also lost sight of the most simple and basic rules which were followed by those who came before us.

Eat whole foods. Eat in moderation. Eat what grows from, or is supported by the earth. Eat with family and friends.

For the purposes of Gift to Know, we define FOOD as fresh, raw, requires refrigeration and needs to be cooked at home.

Here’s more food for thought.

SHOP OFTEN. An attribute of food isn’t that it lasts for weeks on end and that”no refrigeration is required”. Fresh food tastes better.

Read HOW TO PICK A PEACH by Russ Parsons, food and wine columnist of the L.A. Times. Everyone who does will become a culinary aficionado (a few riblets in the Gift to Know 2 came from there). How to buy a broccoli(reject broccoli with yellow flowers); when to buy what squash (winter squash from late September to early November -- later, butternut and kabocha which last through January) are just a few tips shared amongst great information, insights and delicious recipes.