Image by BundleSass via FlickrI love good food of nearly all kinds, and I'm also concerned about various aspects of eating meat (I do eat meat, but I sometimes feel guilty about it). Because of those concerns (the guilt!), I have flirted, just a bit, with vegetarianism; but I never went "all the way" there. For one thing, I cannot imagine going for the rest of my life without ever eating bacon again. Last night I had the first bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich of the year... absolute heaven. Toasted whole wheat bread, mayonnaise, slices of real tomato, good lettuce, and BACON. In my opinion, there are few better things to be eaten. And then there is bacon grease! I actually don't cook and eat bacon all that often... not even once a week, even in tomato season... but every drop of the resulting bacon grease is lovingly preserved in a jar in the refrigerator. There are myriad uses, of course: cooked in the cornbread (hold the sugar!); for black-eyed peas, for succotash, for cooking spinach and other greens. Another reason I have been unable to fully embrace vegetarianism is that I just don't like tempeh, or miso soup (I suffered through way too much of that at Zen retreats, plus kim chee); and tofu just plain frightens me. I do love all kinds of vegetables, and rice (brown basmati, preferably), and all kinds of whole grains. But, please, not the odd (to me) substances made out of soybeans. Just can't make myself go there.
Anyhow, I know I'm not alone, and today Mark Bittman (The Minimalist) has given us a very nice article about what I consider a pretty good solution to the problems of over-consumption of meat: It's really obvious. Just eat less meat, and do so un-apologetically, creatively, and with really good non-meat foods involved. His article is in today's NYT (click here).
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