Life if a bowl of stinky cherries

Life is a Bowl of Cherries, and we most definitely sometimes get the pits. It just sucks when you bite down hard and lose all your teeth.

This is how I summarize my life these days, and many others I know. It seems like it's raining pits. Big hard, smelly, hurt your teeth, pits. Of course when something is bothering me, I refer to it as being smelly.. as a chef- that equates to bad news. I could get on the Julie Powell train and start using such profanity as the 'F' word, but then my daughter would pinch me and my (Italian/New yorker) mother- who reads my blog- would smack me into tomorrow. So I'll stick to smelly and stinky... then I can say, "What the stink is going on", Who the smell platted this dish". In our current stress induced environment, keeping things light is important.

So what do you do when you find out your sister was recently diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. If your me, you fall to pieces (thank you patsy). Then you jump on the computer & research diets. So I did just that, finding a lot of the obvious- eating a good clean diet of fresh foods. I get that, but what I don't get is why most postings and sites did not refer to the many benefits of eating foods that are organic, local and free of BST, Hormones, GMO's Pesticides etc.

I think the whole thing is stinky.. from Jo Jo having The Big C- to all the bullshit politics within our food system. When Richard Berman (Washington, D.C. based lobbying Co) has an opinion about organic foods and the documentary 'Food Inc', we better start looking at our blueberries a bit closer, as they may just stab you in the back. I don't know about you, but having to inspect every damn thing that goes into my yap, is a pain in the caboose. Yet we are forced to do just that, at least if we want to stay healthy and eat a diet that is not laden with artificial sludge.

Am I making you hungry yet.. HA!

Sorry.. but I think we all need to be a bit more comfortable speaking about our current food system, and exactly what it is we are buying/biting into. I see so many people avert their eyes, or become suddenly faint (woosie) when this subject matter is brought up. At least good, clean organic food doesn't stink! That's a start!

When someone you love is ill, and you want so desperately to help them, you start a journey that I think few are truly prepared for. My food journey is truly just beginning- so watch out, close your eyes and plug your ears.. I have a lot to say about the STINK.

Yours in Food....
Ms. Leah Delyte