Dinner down the Road

Who prepared it? What is the dish called? What does it taste
like?

I always cook at home. I go in and out of a state called "broke", and the easiest way to eat cheap and still eat will is knowing the right way to grocery shop, store food, and COOK! My girlfriend loves it, although it's created an enabling environment for her: one in which she does not have to learn to cook for herself.

I dig farmer's markets, but sometimes they can be cost prohibitive and a bit hippy for my taste. Supermarkets always sell junk. Markets and shops have always fascinated me, and I like to think about what the markets of the future will look like.

So when I think about my dinner twenty years from now, I think most about where I bought it from or where I acquired it. I have a share in my neighborhood garden, and every week I and the other shareholders prepare that week's goods. The food has been produced at the peak of efficiency, with microcontrollers monitoring and controlling water output from the water catchment system to the plants, and sensors in the soil to test for quality, and remind us when to rea****s our fertilization schedule.

I'll use the produce to make a healthy meal for me, my then wife and our kid during the most important time of our day, when we all sit down, turn off the smart phones and digital screens and sit and talk. I will have brought my kid with me to get the products that go into our food, which will be heavy on sustainable crops like quinoa and amaranth. Lots of nuts and fruit. We'll sit at the table, bless it, and it. Cleaning up means everything uneaten goes into compost, and bones from meats set aside to make stock. Sounds like a decent meal to me.