I have spent my entire life consuming only the best of food,
so why not share my, and my family's, ideas and creations?
Eat Bon Juju =
Eat Good (Bon is French for good)
and then
Juju?
It stems from the French joujou (meaning toy) and has
been used for years by West African people to refer to
supernatural energy. But you may have heard people
use it to describe bad feelings, or energies, saying,
"Oh, that just had some bad juju."
I've always like the saying, and a friend, Rhiannon,
and I created a bit of a habit of saying it when referring
to our food, and the energy we were putting into it.
You put bad energy (or Juju) into your food,
it will affect the people that eat it.
But if you are eating food that has good energy,
or good Juju, it completely changes what you are
consuming.
So there you go, there's the name taken care of.
And me?
I'm a seventeen year old, Year 12 student from
Bendigo, Victoria, who loves to create..
And cooking is one of the most creative outlets
I have found yet.
I will be uploading photographs of what I am
eating pretty much every day, from our more
extravagant feasts to simple eggs on toast,
making each of the items on display a little
piece of art, the art of gastronomy ..
A bit of my families history goes as follows..
I live with my mother, father, sister, brother
and grandmother in an 140 year old home with
a beautiful gardens surrounding the entire premises
all cared for by my 86 year old grandmother, who
has dedicated the last 40 years of her life to providing
only the best food from her garden to her 12 children,
36 grandchildren and almost 29 great-grand children.
My father is a permaculture designer and teacher, my
mother an actress, musician, cook, wife, creative creator
at it's best, and they both made the conscious decision
to eat organically and live sustainably as possible over
twenty years ago, separately, before meeting through the
yoghurt at our local organic store, Bendigo Organics,
where my father was, at the time, the manager,
and combining their ethics and values to create a business,
Australia Felix Permaculture, three children and
spread their message across the world,
dragging us three kids around with them.
My father is an ex-chef, mum is just an amazing cook,
and I've inherited their passion for real, good food.
We eat totally organically, growing our own as much
as we can, making whatever we can ourselves (Mum's
gone crazy on making ice cream, and is trying churning
butter next and Dad loves his bottling), and support
as much local produce and productions as we can.
It's so much easier than a lot of people think, organically
grown local produce is becoming more and more easy
to access as time goes on, because there is more demand
for it..
I was reading an article, in some terrible Australian women's
magazine I won't bother mentioning, about Organic food and how
some research had been conducted at some hoity toity university,
that was no doubt funded by chemical companies, (I wouldn't
put the effort into researching it further, nor sending a letter
of complaint to the magazine) about how conventionally grown
food had shown to be no worse for people than organically grown.
Am I alone in thinking that just sounds ridiculously stupid?
How is consuming products that have been pumped with all kinds
of who knows what any good for your body? It's not.
The next day I went to see my friend, Em, who had just eaten Chinese
in Melbourne's CBD and had developed a harsh red rash all over her
face. Em's family are also fairly conscious eaters, and she had had a reaction
to the genetically modified food, her system just wasn't used to the amount
of chemical crap that was in that food.. Great example of how 'shit magazine'
was very, very wrong.
Anyway, it's back to my International Studies work for me,
I'll upload todays delicious photographs tomorrow.
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