By Steven Dentali, PhD, Botanical Sciences Consultant06.02.17
The nutraceutical industry’s push for transparency and sustainability comes from understanding that people and planet are intimately connected. The organic products movement is more than just “clean” food; it has to do with the recognition that we are dependent on the planet’s resources, and maintaining their health as our own. It seems clear that the microbiome/microculture within us derives from the culture around us.
When my grandmother made ravioli from scratch, took me mushroom collecting in the New England woods, and grew parsley, tomatoes and basil, she was carrying on traditions from the “old country.” But the point of this article has more to do with my grandfather’s wine, derived every fall from grapes.
They could have been Concord grapes, I don’t really know. I do remember the stacked cases with colorful labels, simply processed. The clusters were washed with a garden hose, passed through a grinder (stems and all), and allowed to ferment before pressing and storing in rich smelling oak barrels. The connection here is not just about my ancestral culture, but about the connection between plants a
When my grandmother made ravioli from scratch, took me mushroom collecting in the New England woods, and grew parsley, tomatoes and basil, she was carrying on traditions from the “old country.” But the point of this article has more to do with my grandfather’s wine, derived every fall from grapes.
They could have been Concord grapes, I don’t really know. I do remember the stacked cases with colorful labels, simply processed. The clusters were washed with a garden hose, passed through a grinder (stems and all), and allowed to ferment before pressing and storing in rich smelling oak barrels. The connection here is not just about my ancestral culture, but about the connection between plants a
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