new york city recipes

Dear Good People of New York City,

Thank you!!!

It has been an incredible time.. Tonight is our last show, and we are so excited by the buzz and the amazing community that has come to each performance. The people in New York City are hungry. Very hungry.

I will be posting the recipes soon, probably all today.

If you went to our New York City shows or even our last Philadelphia show, leave us a comment or question, and Comrade Castro or I will be sure to answer it.

Partnership tastes bitter to me

With all the posturing of the administration about the Greenhouse gases and Iran, i didn't need to read this: Cargill and Coca-Cola in no-cal sweetener venture.

As a long time Coca-Cola drinker (yes I know it's sad), I have so many memories as a child being in my family's house in Guatemala, and drinking Coca-Cola in the liter bottles. Coca-cola is a vice that took a long time to control.

As I grew up and learned more about this beverage...which should just be called Corna-Cola because of all the HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup), I realized I needed to change how I consumed it, so I put myself on a Mero Self-Temperance Movemenet, and ya! do not drink very much, if at all.

Now, I read about this new no-cal sweeener with Cargill.

Why should we be concerned?

Right now these companies are trying to control all our choices when it comes to our kitchen table. And, they will control the landscape of South America. Their choices to satisfy a market will destroy bodies all over north and south american.

I never understood why we need a no-calorie cola drink. If you need no-calories, or no sugar, drink water. I understand, people, the power of memory on our food choices, but when the substance is so unhealthy, we have to say chale or else we are going to lose

I am sorry, good gente; I am not trying to emulate the Administration's you are with us or against us (McFear), but we need to think about some alternatives. How can our memories shape us into healthy actions?

here's a recipe:
a beverage that has no calories and no sugar.

PEOPLE OF THE SUN TEA
1 gallon glass jar with twist top
4 earl gray tea bags or if you are an anti-colonialist: 4 bergamot tea bags
water, preferably filtered, but if you live in an area with good water, you are lucky

Place tea bags on the lip of the jar in the shape of the four directions. (You may use more bags, if you want stronger tea for the extra long community meetings or to last longer in the week.) Make sure bags hang low into the jar.

Have a comrade pour water into jar while you hold the bags. Seal with top, and place outside or on the ledge of the sunniest place where you live. Leave for 4-6 hours or longer. If it is a cloudy day, then the sun cannot give you the gift of tea.

Serve over ice, or (if you are one of those that realize that ice is contributing to the depletion of water resources in the world), refrigerate and serve.

Peace,
mero

eating on $3 a day

interesting article i just read; love to hear the community's comments on this one.

Mine: i think we should all take the challenge, and realize how cheap food does not mean good food, and how our government is trying to fatten the lower class up so they do not rise and critique the current government.

However, I will be trying to plan some recipes with the $3 a day budget in the kitchen back home to see if we can still find health in the government's bureacratic disease.

Patt Morrison: $3-a-day food budget is recipe for trouble
Shoppers will pass up fresh, low-fat and low-salt choices to stock up on the filling and cheap.
By Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times
Published: May 31, 2007

Lose weight on $3 a day! Ask me how!

I'll tell you how: By living on food stamps. I did it, existing on a dollar-a-meal food-stamp allowance for a few days, and yeah, I lost a couple of pounds. But I don't advise it.

In the long run, it takes money to eat thin and healthy. For $3 a day -- which is about what you get when you divide 30 days into the $86 monthly food stamp allowance for one person -- you wind up on the fatty-salty-sugary-canned-processed-bottled diet. Get heart disease on $3 a day! Ask the government how!

To read more: click here

To learn more, about the organization mentionend in the article, go to California Association of Food Banks, they are trying to work to get everyone conscious about food, health, and community.Now that's a bank I can get behind!

In solidarity,
MC