| | I just watched the recent documentary, King Corn.
It's a very good look at the American farming and food systems that revolve entirely around corn. It's pretty crazy just how pervasive corn is in our diet, always in the form of high fructose corn syrup. Due to some articles that I have read and also a purist attitude towards food and perhaps a little conspiracy theory, I am choosing to eat only foods that do not have corn syrup in them. Trying to find food without it is kind of like trying to find a squirrel that can water ski - naturally, not those squirrels that are trained to water ski.
Out are any chips, pop, candy, most baked goods, most breads, most cereals, and then anything that's processed... So I'm basically cooking everything from scratch, which is pretty cool. And the farmers' markets are totally helping out for this cause. This week, we picked up strawberries, sweet onions, milk, eggs, cinnamon raisin nut bread, spinach, squash and tomatoes.
Tonight I made onion-rings with Spring Wheat Flour, salt, pepper, an egg, and Sam Adams for the batter after marinading the sweet onions in milk and water. BOUYA! Of course, now I have a stomach aching after all of the grease... but at least there's no corn syrup in me...
Thank God I can have coffee, Cinnamon Life, bread, and salad.
Anyways, it's a great documentary and you should all check it out if you have the time.
Peace and Good Food.
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