Food

This is one of those documentaries that just seems to leave you wondering what in the hell we are thinking as a species. How we have gotten so far from our connection with actual life that a human being could concoct a way to feed a cow a grain based diet of corn, that is known to kill the animal, just long enough to fatten it for slaughter. To cut a whole in the side of a living cow to study which antibiotics can be used to keep it alive long enough to make weight for slaughter.

This film gives you the opportunity to listen to farmers discuss how their crops are the worst crap ever grown on US soil and how they know it but need the money and can't care what the corn is for. How they grow only corn, and corn of only one kind, that is not edible just to get the government subsidy check and can't even grow thier own food anymore.

King Corn brings home the notion that we are all complicit in this insanity... each time we buy a coke, shop the local walmart, eat that cheesburger, we are making an abstracted choice to continue on this course of lunacy. I guess that is key... that this is all abstracted away from a direct connection to us. We never see or smell the slaugher house, we don't live next door to the family working in the Chinese factory, and we have gotten as fat and blind as all our diabetic neighbors so we don't recognize the mess we are in.

There are certain foods that one most come to know how to prepare in one's lifetime. This is a fundamental secret to existence and a fundamental practice on the path of liberation. I have decided it would be wise to share these foods here in the blog so that others may free themselves from some karmic dead weight and enjoy the fruits of the gods on thier tables.

The first of these foods would have to be, hands down, humus. My wife and I have been on a quest for years to find the perfect humus recipe... that recipe that is so delightful, easy to replicate, and fundamentally sound that it can be made almost anywhere from memory and universally recognized as food for the soul.

We have found this recipe recently and will share it here in. Just be warned: This humus is soooooo freakin good it will make you silky smooz like Zohan.

The humus ingredients:

• 2 cans organic chick peas
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 3/4 cup tahini
• 3 gloves fresh crushed garlic
• 1 lime juiced
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup water

Instructions:

1. combine garlic, salt, lime juice, and olive oil in blender (get a damn good blender.. I actually fried ours this evening making a batch... nothing like the smell of smoke and melting plastic with your humus!)
2. add in chick peas and tahini a little at a time and keep blending
3. add water incrementally to keep humus moving and smooth
4. blend until sikly smooth and consume like the true Zohan you are.