GO Blog 07 Grocery shopping with a twist!

I went to Metro on Gould street. this is one of the stores I usually buy groceries in, because it is on my way to and from Ryerson.

My category was pork products, because I love my pork and pigs. One of my favourite dishes are pasta carbonara. I have strong memories from my childhood at my grandparents summerhouse on the country side where I could stand for a long time and watching the pigs play at a farm that was close by. A decade later I went back with my cousin but now the where only in a big barn and they did not get to play outside, that was very discouraging. I wish that laws where stricter so that pigs, and other farm animals, were treated better. I know that there are alternatives to buy "happy meat" but I simply can not afford in my tight budget, so I wish the only option would be "happy meat". Maybe some day...

Writer, chef and GOD Anthony Bourdain talks about how buying ecological food is a class issue, were rich people can buy away there guilt, and poorer people is made to feel guilty because they cannot afford the more expensive food.


This is how pigs should be treated:



In Hugh Fearnleys bokk River Cottage he spekas at length about raising pigs. When I read that  it actually got me, the hard-core city bnoy, to start dreaming of that maybe someday, I will live on the countryside and raise pigs.


At Metro I found the following pork products:

• pork chops
• pork shoulder
• pork sirloin chops
• porkback ribs
• pork cubes boneless
• pork tenderloin
• ready crisp bacon
• real bacon bits
• smoked pork picninc shoulder
• honey & maple smoked ham
• bacon
• extra thick bacon
• bacon 50% less sodium
• applewood smoked bacon
• cooked pork back ribs
• prosciuttino
• pancetta
• caccitatore
• salami

As we can see pork products comes in a wide variety. They go from being soft, like porkchops, when they are fresh to being very hard when cured like the prosciuttino. The pork products are usually on the red scale of colours from pink to dark red, they also have white fat patches in them.

Here are the results of my drawings of food.

Art word of the post is Color.

It is fascinating to think that color is dependant on light and that with different light settings, we perceive different colors, and with no light no colors (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009). To me it is quite philosophical to see that what I have seen as stable and set things, like the colors of things, growing up is actually something very dependent on others, like individual perception and the light. Colors gives that extra spice to life and it would be impossible to imagine life without it.

References

Schirrmacher, R. & Englebright Fox, J. (2009). Art & creative development for young children. Belmont, CA, USA: Delmar, Cengage Learning.