06Apr 2017 by Plant Matter Kitchen
DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: SUSTAINABLE

DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: SUSTAINABLE

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Industrial farming. Fertilizer runoff. Polluted grounds and soils. This is what sustainable, ethical, environmentally friendly farming practices are trying to combat. The documentary Sustainable is a great resource that highlights the importance of local farming and the impact the practice has on the community, land, food activism, food security, and the healthy, vibrant, and synergetic cultivation of community. THE CRISIS OF FOOD CONSUMPTION Former New York Times columnist Mark Bittman notes how food production and consumption are suffering a crisis: “It’s not a crisis that you wake up and see every morning. It’s at a crisis point where you have a health care crisis, where our land and water is being badly used, and [where] agriculture is the number two culprit in climate change.” There are a host of influential,…
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28Sep 2016 by Plant Matter Kitchen
It’s About The Taste, Not The Look

It’s About The Taste, Not The Look

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We all know that true beauty comes from the inside, for both people and food. Like diamonds in the rough, some of the most beautiful veggies are the ones with their roots intact and with imperfections in their skin. It’s What’s on The Inside That Matters Most Putting aesthetics aside, Rick Cornelissen, Owner & Operator of Eco-Logic Farms, talked exclusively to PMK about how we should value food for its inner beauty, because when it comes to nourishment and flavour, it’s about how food tastes, not about how it looks. Cornelissen has been in the business of food farming for long enough to see how much people’s food knowledge and needs have evolved. Calling attention to how people's vegetable preferences have changed over the years, Cornelissen told PMK that years…
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