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A realistic hope for a dinner in 10 years

March, 10th in 2020


I am about to enjoy dinner with my family. It is a special occasion, we want to celebrate last week’s victory: governments forming the ALCA (North-South America’s Free Trade Agreement) finally banned transgenic crops for good. This has its origin back in 2010 with a petition initiated in Canada: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/genetically-modified-whea...


Special guest:

Mr. Jamie Oilver, the food revolutionary that changed the way US citizens eat!

http://www.jamieoliver.com/campaigns/jamies-food-revolution


Location:

We decided to hold our meeting in Quito, Ecuador. It is our first visit ever. Ecuador is one of many developing countries in which small farmers produce some of the world’s favourite fruit and beverages. These farmers participate in FAIR TRADE.


Why Ecuador?

We will find in the market a variety of exotic and delicious goodies for our meal. I mean, we could be having this dinner somewhere in Europe or North America, but here at the tropic we have access to a wider variety of certified organic products which are locally farmed as opposite to what’s available in developed countries that have to import these goods.


Who’s in charge:

Although one of the best chefs on earth is around, we will make an amazing performance to impress him.

My 3 cousins, my sister in law and I cooked for our guest and our beloved ones. We have been living in many countries all around the world for the last 20 years, we acquired culinary influences form Spain, India, Switzerland, Denmark, Arab Emirates, Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, Bolivia and Mexico.


The menu:

1) Bolivian green (unripe) corn tamales stuffed with cheese which come wrapped in their husks.

2) Halved pineapples stuffed with pasta salad.

3) A variety of “tapas” which are typical Spanish appetizers that consist on tiny servings; these offer infinite possibilities of combining all kinds of bread (wh***meal, ray bread, garlic bread) topped with any kind of eastern curry, potato omelette, egg salad, guacamole, cheese creams, etc

4) Chocolate and/or lemon mousse for dessert!


Caring about Mother Earth:

In summary, our dinner resulted 70% organic, 40% fair trade, 100% local food. Regretfully, 99% of all those delicious dishes would test positive for transgenic genes as propagation of GMO’s complies with natural law of biodiversity just like any other kind of crop.

In the other hand, a good thing about the dishes above described is that you normally will not need cutlery to eat them. In any case, the crockery we use is compostable tableware: http://waste-reduction.suite101.com/article.cfm/biodegradable_and_c...


In this group some of us are vegetarian, some us are meat eaters -although very aware of animal rights-. Those would be 2 good reasons why there will be no meat on the table. Nonetheless, the real reason is that agreements reached at World Climate Summit in 2011 related to cutting greenhouse gas emissions down to 40% have not been complied with in the last 8 years. And we are here, still protesting against greenhouse emissions coming from stockbreeding.


Well, now it's time to leave you, they are waiting for me ;-)


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Comment by Iyamuremye Jean de Dieu on May 11, 2010 at 4:47pm
Please invite me, I would like to be with you !
Comment by Ternura Rojas on May 11, 2010 at 4:52pm
Ok! fine, you are offcially invited! but...you wil have to bring a tipycal dish from Rwanda AND this dish should be edible with the hands, as we do not use cuttlery in order to prevent littering and also to save water :-) deal?
Comment by Iyamuremye Jean de Dieu on May 11, 2010 at 4:55pm
Do you think I have a choice, I will do even more! Be ready to use bowl, I have a post for bowl.
Comment by Morag on May 5, 2011 at 2:20pm
Can I come too, it sounds wonderful!
Comment by Ternura Rojas on May 5, 2011 at 2:28pm
Yes Morag, you are very welcome :-) What would you bring to the table in 9 years time?
Comment by Morag on May 5, 2011 at 2:47pm
A fruit salad, straight from the food forest trees, an alternative dish for desert (just incase any of your guests are watching their figures!) - from my temperate climate you can feast on cherries, apples, pears, peaches, apricots (if we have a good summer) and it they will store for the journey - mulberries.

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