Bolivia Takes McDonalds Off The Country's Menu...

It's said that the thirty something thousand McDonald restaurants around the world serve up to three hundred million people a day.
And the average McD serves eight people every minute they're open.
There are many obscene facts and overweight figures and fallacies about the company but let's get back to Bolivia where, as in many other countries, good food is prepared with loving care, attention to health and proper cooking times.
Bolivians relish a food philosophy that includes fresh ingredients and patience.
And the Latin American country has been saying no to McD for years. Finally the fast food giant has had to acknowledge a bottom line that was redder than a very rare steak and taken their junk food elsewhere.
Bolivia unlike many countries who have lost themselves in the fast and convenient world of packaged food-like products, just wasn't prepared to accept the McD culture.
The Bolivian rejection of McDonalds and the country's philosophy that fast food is a very poor substitute for the real thing is a great example for the rest of the world to follow.
But of course they won't...

You Might Like Large Food...

The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show is one of Britain's most prestigious gardening shows.
It was held recently and as usual featured the Battle Of The Giants where gardeners from all over the country show off their monster melons and other delights.
Weightlifter Jonathan Walker is seen here preparing to lift a marrow weighing over 120lbs or 54kg after it had won one of six awards for its' owner and grower, Peter Glazebrook.
Peter is seen here with his world record onion weighing 18lbs or 8.16kg.
And here he is again with his colossal cabbage weighing over 81lb or 36.74kg.
There's more here but no mention of what Peter's secret for success is.
I think the answer lies in the soil...

If You Fancy Finger Food...

This Finger Food offering is similar
to Slow Food but only in that it's local.
At this precise moment and probably for a very limited time.
You might enjoy one or both of these little morsels as a light snack or deep fried perhaps as an entree with a salad on the side. And a glass of Pinot Gris.
But you may have to be quick...

Carlo Petrini And The Fast Growing Slow Food Movement...

Slow Food is an international movement founded in 1986 by Carlo Petrini,  passionately referred to as Carlin by his adoring fans.
It was formed originally to resist the opening of a McDonalds near the Spanish Steps in Rome.
Today the movement has many many members in over one hundred and fifty countries.
Its goals of sustainable foods and promotion of local small businesses are paralleled by a political agenda directed against globalization of agricultural products.
In other words grow local, eat local.
Carlo spoke recently at the seventh biennial jamboree, the International Salone del Gusto to a discerning audience, bringing attention to the incredible waste in our food management systems calling our refrigerators, home graveyards.
According to this man, the greatest of all gastromonic acts is working with leftovers.
He was railing against what he calls 'food pornography' and the endless TV cooking shows that have very little to do with the preparation of a simple home cooked meal.
I'm with you Carlo. Bon Appetit...