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The Three Times a Day Manifesto
A 17-point exhortation to local food consciousness, from the authors of 'The 100-Mile Diet.'
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon created this food cloud as part of the WE: Vancouver exhibit. What does it mean? See sidebar in story below for an explanation.
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100-Mile Diet
Eating a truly local diet for a year poses some tricky questions.
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Eat Your History
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Good to Grow: Raising Food in BC's Cities
1. We don't only eat food. We eat cars. We eat houses. We eat streets. We eat music. We eat laughter. We eat freedom. We eat souls. We eat one another alive.
2. On the other hand, food is a good place to start.
3. Vancouver! Like you, we are uncomfortable with manifestos! And yet we do feel strongly about the following:
4. Food should not only be something that you eat, but something that you do.
FOOD WORD CLOUD, EXPLAINED
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon created the food cloud that runs as an image at the top of this story. Mural-sized, it is displayed as part of the currently showing WE: Vancouver exhibit that also included their "Three Times a Day Manifesto." Here's how they explain what's in the cloud:
1. It lists every local food we can remember eating.
2. Position L to R is roughly the food's season, or the time of year it's most important (with the L edge representing Jan. 1 and the R edge Dec. 31).
3. The size of the word indicates its importance to our diet.
4. The position higher or lower on the wall represents availability.
5. Red words are foods that are available in at least five varieties. Blue words are available in at least 10 varieties. Green words are things we'd never eaten before.
5. This is not about being a "foodie."
6. Were your grandparents foodies? Is a farmer a foodie?
7. This is about history. This is about immigrants from Europe who carried their sauerkraut-pressing rocks to this new land because they couldn't be sure they would find rocks that would do the job as well. This is about immigrants from Asia who came with seeds in their pockets because it is seeds, not money, that guarantee life on earth.
8. But this is also about money, in that we have traded the hours we once spent finding, growing, preparing and preserving our own food for longer hours on the job to earn the money to buy convenience food.
9. Are you satisfied with the tradeoff?
10. This manifesto is mild-mannered. It does not call for a revolution, only small changes.
11. You might start a garden. Or make beer. Or dig for clams. Or plant a fruit tree. Or make jam, make pickles, grow herbs, keep chickens, hunt deer, pick berries, bake bread, tap a maple tree, turn your front lawn into a potato patch.
12. Plant a field of edible flowers! Get to know your mushrooms!
13. No need to do all of these things, just one or two of them. Let someone else keep bees or milk the cow. Maybe your calling is to make caramels with the honey and the cream.
14. Make enough to share. Absolute self-sufficiency is anti-social.
15. Small steps are enough. They are enough to begin the long process of withdrawal from a system that wants to sell us everything we once did for ourselves or with the people around us. A system that asks us only to eat, eat, eat.
16. One rule: Never trust your food to a system that you can't explain to a child. (Because suppose one day you had to.)
17. Maybe we are talking about a revolution after all.
[Editor's note: This is part of the Vancouver Art Gallery's WE: Vancouver -- 12 Manifestos for the City exhibit, which runs through this Sunday, May 1. We publish it as part of our series WE: Vancouver: Voices from the Exhibit.] ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
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snert
1 year ago
#16 is silly.
"16. One rule: Never trust your food to a system that you can't explain to a child. (Because suppose one day you had to.)"
You can explain anything to a child as long as you don't make it too complicated. Gardening can get real complicated real quick just like anything else.
peetey
1 year ago
three times a day
That used to mean something entirely different in my youth, sigh, but seriously, how about never put anything in your body that is not water soluble?
Countrytype
1 year ago
Community manifestos
Vancouver Art Gallery's WE Manifestos are also posted on billboard hoardings along Kingsway between Clark Drive and Fraser. Nice to bump into while on a walk to the local viet sub shop! I'm sure they are posted up elsewhere, maybe in your neighbourhood? And the others are thought provoking too, one about rooftop growing in urban areas in the future, in a fantastic poetic sense.