Food Glorious Food: Food, Foodies, Farmers Market and Handmade Food Renaissance

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When visiting the Greenmarket in Union Square the first thing I noticed was how different it was from a regular supermarket. I felt healthier just being there than I would have in a supermarket because the food just looked fresh as opposed to being packaged and frozen or in cans. The first question [...]

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On Wednesday November 18, I went to go visit the farmers market by Union Square. It was unlike any market i’ve ever been to before in my life. They have their own set of hours, being open Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8-6. There were various different vendors selling [...]

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Wow! I recently went to the Farmers Green Market at Union Square. It was the most fascinating trip to a market I’ve ever been to. There were a bunch of vendors all there selling their products. As I walked around I noticed some interesting things about the market.
The vendors that I spoke to were informative [...]

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Being a firm believer in eating organic food and helping out society, I have visited several farmers markets. However, it was my first time visiting the farmers market in Union Square located on 17th Street and Broadway. The market is open on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays between the hours of 8 in the morning [...]

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Examples from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring:

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring is about how DDT is bad. 
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is a classic book because it created the modern environmental movement with its concern about DDT and its effects.  A close-reading of her seminal book reveals that what she was really suggesting was the complete [...]

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My favorite genre of food is seafood; shrimp, crabs, scallops, and especially lobsters. Anyway seafood was cooked whether it was fried, boiled, sauteed, etc, it all tasted great. After reading David Foster Wallace’s critique “Consider the Lobster”, eating lobster or any type of seafood for that matter is not as appealing to me anymore. David [...]

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I started to care for what I eat since taking a health class in high school. The teacher explained the dangers of saturated fats, trans fats, sodium and cholesterol. He also explained the benefits of having vitamins, iron and other nutritional values in your daily diet. The movie “King Corn” changed my perception on today’s [...]

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Beef used to be my favorite type of meat, that’s because I love spaghetti Bolognese and many other dishes full of beef, but “King Corn” has radically changed my view of beef; I grew up in Europe where all of food is usually organic, and more importantly animals are usually treated in a more [...]

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    For the longest time I have eaten lobster, looking at the dish as no more than another animal killed to satisfy my hunger. But I never thought about how it was killed or in all reality cared how it was killed as long as I was able to have my luxurious lobster meal. My [...]

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On tuesday, two or so weeks ago i went to Z lounge with my friends, they have daily specials there for food and i noticed that Friday is a lobster special which was cheap at only 21$.  I got really enthusiastic about coming back on friday and persuaded my friends to go to try it [...]

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One kind of food that has been part of my diet is beef.  Ever since I have been born, I do not remember a long period of time in which beef was not present as one of my meals.  Beef shows up in my diet by that McDonald’s Big Mac that is so delicious to [...]

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I am not going to lie. My diet consists mainly of meat and some form of soda. I think my body has reached the point where it rejects vegetables. Any form of meat I love, whether it be fish, pork, lamb ,chicken, but i especially love beef. Ive never stopped to wonder how the animals [...]

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The food industry has created a range of products that have made cooking more convenient for our fast pace lifestyle. At the same time some products are not healthy often causing an illness that sometimes consumers are unaware of the source of their ailment. Once you discover the origins you are able to curtail the [...]

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Food is defined as, “ any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc” by dictionary.com.  I am an avid lover of all different types of  meat, from beef, to chicken and fish.  The type of meat I eat most often however, is most [...]

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Ever since i can remember meat and soda have always been a part of my diet. I usually eat other types of dishes like pasta, or rice, but meat has been my favorite. I am not really the type of person who can just ead a salad or meat once in a while, like some [...]

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            Ever since I was young, beef was my favorite meat and has always been a major part of my diet. My dad would by a couple pounds of steak every time we go to Pathmark. Before attending this course, I had a very bad habit of going to fast food restaurants. During the beginning [...]

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One kind of food that I have been trying to give up as a part of my diet is beef since my attendance in this class. The essay Kosher Wars provides couples of examples to show how the food industry is changing the food quality. The more industrial food productions involve in the society, the [...]

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Fast Food has always been a large percentage of the food that i ate.  I have always been someone who has eaten at McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King or my favorite Taco Bell!  These companies have always distributed food at low prices and close locations.
The convenience and affordability became unbearable to avoid and became an everyday [...]

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Kosher meat, whether it be chicken, veal, beef, etc, has always been a regular part of my diet. Being as I am an observant Jew, I have always only eaten meat that is kosher. I am often tempted to try non-kosher meat these days, as many of my non-Jewish friends go out to eat regularly [...]

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Meat has always been an important part of my diet. The smell, look, and taste of a well prepared meat dish has always and will always have my personal appeal. But since taking this course, I’ve taken a much more sympathetic view towards the animals that satiate my hunger.
In King Corn, I found that the [...]

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Food is all around you. Since I can remember I have loved eating meat, weather it was beef, chicken, or lamb. Meat was a large part of my diet. Most kids grow out of the “I do not want to eat my vegetables” stage but I never did. To this day I dislike eating most [...]

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Beef has always been an integral part of my diet. Growing up in a Russian family, many of my favorite dishes include beef and I cannot imagine my life without eating it. Just based on my mother’s home cooked meals, I eat beef or veal at least once a week. But if I include all [...]

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I have always been someone who has eaten McDonalds, Wendy’s, or Burger King at least a few times a week due to their convenience. I always knew eating such amounts of fast food was not good, especially after the calorie counts were revealed to me in New York City fast food establishments, but it was [...]

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Steak has always been an integrated part of my diet. I am a huge lover of meat due to its high protein content and taste. After a great workout I would always crave for some red meat. Up until we watched “King Corn” however I never thought of the process in which the meat I [...]

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One food that I have always loved is lobster. I love the taste and it seems I am always in the mood to eat it. But I could normally only eat it during special occasions such as parties, anniversaries, and Christmas Eve, so I would always look forward to it. To me [...]

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Having a dad as a chef does not mean delicious home-cooked meals from him all the time. In fact, it means seldom eating his cooking at all. For the few times a year he does cook, my dad always makes lobster and steak. As a child, I remember seeing the lobster in the sink and [...]

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Ever since I began this class the whereabouts of food have been on my mind much more often than before. I have thought more about what exactly is in my food and where did my food originate. One kind of food that I have been trying to give up as a part of my diet [...]

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One kind of food that has been part of my diet up until my attendance in this class is peanut butter and jelly (I know that’s kind of juvenile, but it’s true). I usually ate peanut butter and jelly three to four times during the week. But after watching King Corn, I pretty much cut [...]

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Lobster has always been a food i have longed to eat but am not allowed because as a Jew, i only eat kosher. Even tough i can’t eat it, that hasn’t stopped me from thinking about what it would taste like if i was able to eat it. I also [...]

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After all the things we learned in class, it’s kind of disappointing to admit that I haven’t really eliminated any food from my diet. Although I know a large amount of products, almost all products have some form of corn in them; it doesn’t really prevent me from eating something. Once in a while I [...]

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One kind of food that has been a part of my diet all my life so far is meat. I love meat. As far as I knew, I was eating a cow that once ran across a grassy field or a chicken that was raised by a farmer. I never really questioned where it came [...]

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      One thing almost everyone dislikes is spending too much money. We especially get upset when we have to spend a lot on necessary items, such as food. However, we all fail to realize that the less we spend, the cheaper the quality we receive. For many years now, farmers have been producing an oversupply [...]

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I have always loved eating meat, and because of my religion I am forbidden to eat non-kosher meat. Growing up in a Jewish community and going to a Jewish school, I was always taught that kosher food is healthier for you, and that the animal that is slaughtered, or shechted in Hebrew, in a more [...]

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I love beef. I love steak, I love cheeseburgers, and everything else with beef.  Beef has been a pretty steady piece of my diet. I can remember the first time my mother let me try a piece of her steak, and the taste that ensued from it. Whenever I go out for  some fine dinning, [...]

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Lobster has always been something that I was not allowed to eat. I am not allowed to eat it because of my religion. Lobster is also the one food that I have always wanted to try. It was the one thing in the world I’ve always wanted to put in my mouth that I just [...]

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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. –MAHATMA GANDHI

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It seems that all the different things we eat and drink are actually all the same thing. Corn.  Apparently, this substance, which I refrain from calling a vegetable, is found in most food products. In fact, corn is present even in things that are supposed to be fresh, such as poultry and meat. What we [...]

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After watching King Corn, I have learned that corn is in almost every single thing that we eat. We take in so much corn that it’s even in our DNA. Before this class I didn’t even know this; I thought corn was simply yellow kernels. And I never knew that so much corn [...]

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