Two hundred years ago, scurvy was the scourge of long ocean voyages and not a pretty sight. After two or three months at sea, sailors developed swollen legs, puffy and painful gums and large discoloured hemorrhages over the whole body. The sufferers fainted easily and experienced spasms of shivering and terrors.

By the mid 1700s, authorities knew this had something to do with the lack of fresh food on ships, as mariners made miraculous recoveries on land when they were fed fresh produce. Listen and learn how Captain Cook's spruce beer changed maritime history--and get the recipe!. Subscribe to our podcast feed so you can open the attachment below, or click here to listen to the mp3 audio file.

"Stop for a moment and think about how important real food is to our holidays and celebrations. Suppose you showed up at Grandma’s house on Thanksgiving, and dinner was Big Macs, McFries, and Mcapple pies, with maybe some micro-waved convenience store bean burritos on the side. You would think that she had lost her mind!"

Meet Bob Waldrop, founder of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, writer, and ardent supporter of Oklahoma’s farmers and ranchers.  Bob doesn't mince words and what he has to say will make you think about your grocery shopping list...

"Nobody wants fast food on Thanksgiving. Everybody wants 'slow food' for celebrations. Turkeys stuffed with sage dressing, seasoned with herbs, carrots, onions, and celery, baked sweet potatoes, real mashed potatoes, gravy made from the broth from the turkey, and home-made pies and rolls. That is a Thanksgiving dinner. It’s not cheap fast food sandwiches made with mystery meats and industrial chemicals.

"The Slow Food movement is at the vanguard of the next big thing in food. It rejects the tasteless, anonymous, homogenized, and industrialized flavors dished up by the modern agribidness system. It embraces real food — meals prepared from basic ingredients that originate in local farms with stories and histories and are distributed via local 'Value Chains' where every stakeholder benefits and receives a fair price for their contribution to the final result. Read Bob's whole article...