#eatingalabama

[thepdrnola]

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No Farms, Plenty of Food??

"Eating Alabama" is a documentary by Andrew Beck Grace. He and his wife return to his hometown of Alabama, where they live a year eating only foods produced by Alabamian farmers. They are joined in their ventures by other similarly-minded young couples. They are surprised to learn how few Alabamian farmers remain, finding that most of them had left for other professions, either by choice or by force. So if most Alabamians are able to fill up on food produced in factories on the other side of the country, do local farms really matter? Yes, but how do we convince skeptics of this in a time when the "No Farms, No Food" bumper stickers don't hold much truth anymore?

For more information on "Eating Alabama," click here

[cedwards13unity]

Farmers Club

Eating Alabama, by Andrew Beck Grace. "In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as they navigate the agro-industrial gastronomical complex, they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed since farmers once populated their family histories. A thoughtful and often funny essay on community, the South and sustainability, “Eating Alabama” is a story about why food matters". 

The film focused mainly on just how different the food system is today compared to years ago, they presented the audience with the question "If there was no grocery stores, where would you get your food?" A simple question that I honestly had no answer to. I didn't know what I would do for food if grocery stores for some reason disappeared. All of this lead to the question, where does our food come from? They visited local farmers, local markets, even companies. I found it interesting that when they went to local farmer markets in search of fresh locally grown food, majority of the markets they went to - the food was labeled to show it was not grown locally.  The film definitely opens your eyes to the issue and gives you this urge to want to learn how to grow your own food or even just increase your knowledge of where it all comes from. 

[matthewcharleshowe]

The film "Eating Alabama" really exemplifies eating locally which I enjoy love about the film because I like everything about food that is local from Maine.

Lobster

Wild Blueberries

Potatoes

Maine Root

I also liked the way the film was so personal to the narrator because he was filming during it and you got to know this guy and his wife pretty well by the end of the film. I would not change this because I think it was easy to watch because of that. The film does more than show us how we don't know were our food comes from by showing us how hard it is to find out. I mean that in every sense of the word because in one scene they are slaughtering chickens and that is hard for them and would be hard for me most likely. The stylistic approach was a very personal approach, two honest people trying to accomplish this goal of eating locally grown food for a year. It shows the process, struggles and the overall experience. Finally they have showcased this adventure and start giving us an emotional sense of dissatisfaction that they apparently are experiencing in the scene from there last meal of the experiment. This helps them later convey the message that there is a need for smaller farms because there are people willing to eat there product. I think this film is encouraging farmers that might shy away from entering farming in Alabama as a profession to do so and serve Alabama locals. It is also encouraging Alabama to eat local foods the majority of the film by example i.e. the narrator and his wife engulfing enticing looking plates of organic, locally grown food.

*screen shot from the films trailer located on the "Eating Alabama" website

[thepdrnola]

Gettin back to my roots😉 Sweet Potato Gnocchi #truffles #newdishalert #satterfieldsrestaurant #eattheham #eatingalabama (at Satterfield's Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2poPmMF104/?igshid=11rfer7hlr6o