Cooking And Eating....“Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es”

a fat, fried chicken leg and a small salad was 'enough', this afternoon.....with 'room for dessert', later.......

I was, again,  thinking about the "meat processing plant" scene in ' GUN CRAZY'. ....wherein Peggy and John escape through a maze of  thousands of animal carcasses........which set me to thinking about the trillions of creatures we humans slaughter and consume.........There must be SOMETHING I can eat with impunity! Mass production of just about anything seems to lead to greed, chemicals and disrespect for living things......A case for back yard organic vegetable farming....and forget about the animals! The vast majority of the 74 billion chickens that we slaughter and devour spend their lives in total confinement—from the moment they hatch until the day they are murdered.....hundreds of millions spend their lives, confined to lay eggs......and on and on.... This number does not typically include the additional 6 billion male chicks killed annually because they are not profitable for the egg-laying industry.   ..I'm going on a speckled butter bean and rice diet fo...

blazin' hot luncheon of thick bean soup, with diced tomatoes, potatoes, speckled butterbeans, crowder peas, Italian flat beans, fire-roasted red peppers, raisins and apricots....seasoned with coriander seeds, cumin, coriander paste, ginger, cloves and powdered bay leaves......

a tasty light vegan dinner of collard greens, onions and sunflower seeds, doused with Prelibato vinegar; spicy fava beans and cassava....  with the addition of polenta cakes with coriander paste & oil-cured, sundried tomato slices, dolmas with lemon juice and a crater of creamed potatoes, filled with grilled, chopped yellow bell peppers & grits, to contain the fava beans...........