For new subscribers (thank you!) and old, allow me to reintroduce my mission for Climate Cookery: to create modern, delicious foods from the traditional, “underutilized” crops overlooked by the industrial food system.
theres something beautiful/inspiring about being difficult to commercialize :) .. it feels like industry sells us less nutritionally dense food so we have to buy more of it to sustain ourselves. and idk, this is not based on fact, just hunch, but it seems underutilized crops may in part have more nutritional value because they havent been as manipulated by commercialization. anyway, thanks for writing and giving language to articulate what's happening and how it relates to popular culture! love your food for thought!
Yes, that's a great point! I think you're right -- processing strips food of its nutrients, and yes I remember reading a nutrition/diet advice a while back, they recommended for example for having really good quality chocolate as dessert. So you still get that sweetness you're craving but you eat less of it because it's more satisfying. For sure, underutilized crops tend to be very nutritious too!
Wow, thank you for writing this. I'm keeping our plates colorful!
Thank you for reading, I'm looking forward to your 2026 posts!
theres something beautiful/inspiring about being difficult to commercialize :) .. it feels like industry sells us less nutritionally dense food so we have to buy more of it to sustain ourselves. and idk, this is not based on fact, just hunch, but it seems underutilized crops may in part have more nutritional value because they havent been as manipulated by commercialization. anyway, thanks for writing and giving language to articulate what's happening and how it relates to popular culture! love your food for thought!
Yes, that's a great point! I think you're right -- processing strips food of its nutrients, and yes I remember reading a nutrition/diet advice a while back, they recommended for example for having really good quality chocolate as dessert. So you still get that sweetness you're craving but you eat less of it because it's more satisfying. For sure, underutilized crops tend to be very nutritious too!