Crisis in the Making

Today, in our cash-rich, time-poor society, our lifestyle means that we are not able to feed our children properly. It is now widespread for children, across all social classes, to go to bed hungry. Our children are starving. Yes, starving! Not children in Africa. Not poor children. Not homeless children. Not children from 'dysfunctional families'. But our children. This is the shocking conclusion of an extensive study recently carried out by the World Health Organisation on public nutrition across the globe. Researchers found that all across the Western world, the developed world, the affluent world, the educated world, children are growing up hungry because their parents are not cooking for them. And when they are not actively hungry, they are malnourished and survive on a diet of unhealthy, unsatisfying, processed food. They are, as the Gaelic saying goes, marbh leis an tae agus marbh gan é, dead with the tea and dead without it!

Blessings on your table!

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Food and the Circle of Life

In Mexico, on the Day of the Dead, families honour deceased relatives, by bringing picnics to their graves and eating there ‘with’ them. Sumptuous dishes are prepared for these feasts-- the dead person's favourite meal, with chocolate drinks, skull-shaped sugar candies and a special bread for the occasion, pan de muerto, the ‘bread of the dead’. The festival celebrates the cycle of life and death and, in this sense, the Bread of the Dead is also the Bread of Life, for life and death are one.
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