this is the diet that lets nature right
the menu hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with chef Jeff Crump about
seasonal eating and his book earth to
table what is the idea behind earth to
table a celebration of good food and
ultimately that’s the goal that’s what
we were trying to do we wanted to bring
the best possible produce to our
restaurant that meant seasonal and local
when it comes to tomatoes and the only
kind of artisan food so can we kind of
compare it to the hundred-mile diet
100-mile diet is an extreme version of
what we do we’re foodies first we love
food and the original reason was to
source out the best tomato why do you
think eating locally is so popular right
now because the alternative is really
unappealing the food that we generally
speaking fast food and conventional food
is boring it’s not healthy on so many
different levels do you think it’s a fad
at all do you think people will move
back to processed no it’s definitely not
a fad because conventional food is
unsustainable there’s going to come to a
point where it just can’t happen anymore
now obviously you’re from Ontario and
their winters are pretty harsh what do
you do in the wintertime in terms of
vegetables and stuff like that first of
all we preserve food so we pickle things
but a very simple way to preserve food
is to freeze it all the cellared
vegetables like parsnips carrots
potatoes apples those are all throughout
the winter time and then we make sure
prudery which sausages hams a regular
consumer could just search out food
artisans who you know make the types of
food that are preserved and also that’s
when you start importing so what would
be your number one secret to eating
locally the number one secret is
learning how to cook you know I think if
you don’t know how to cook you are a
slave to convenience food and you don’t
have a choice you go to your local
grocery store and they tell you what you
can eat because you can’t go the
vegetable or the deli or the you know
the meat counter you have to go to the
center where everything’s made for you
you know people say that eating locally
and organic is more expensive than
eating convenience food but two potatoes
cost sixty cents
a package of mashed potatoes costs four
dollars so it actually is cheaper with
an asterisk you have to be able to cook
thank you very much thanks for having me
the menu hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with chef Jeff Crump about
seasonal eating and his book earth to
table what is the idea behind earth to
table a celebration of good food and
ultimately that’s the goal that’s what
we were trying to do we wanted to bring
the best possible produce to our
restaurant that meant seasonal and local
when it comes to tomatoes and the only
kind of artisan food so can we kind of
compare it to the hundred-mile diet
100-mile diet is an extreme version of
what we do we’re foodies first we love
food and the original reason was to
source out the best tomato why do you
think eating locally is so popular right
now because the alternative is really
unappealing the food that we generally
speaking fast food and conventional food
is boring it’s not healthy on so many
different levels do you think it’s a fad
at all do you think people will move
back to processed no it’s definitely not
a fad because conventional food is
unsustainable there’s going to come to a
point where it just can’t happen anymore
now obviously you’re from Ontario and
their winters are pretty harsh what do
you do in the wintertime in terms of
vegetables and stuff like that first of
all we preserve food so we pickle things
but a very simple way to preserve food
is to freeze it all the cellared
vegetables like parsnips carrots
potatoes apples those are all throughout
the winter time and then we make sure
prudery which sausages hams a regular
consumer could just search out food
artisans who you know make the types of
food that are preserved and also that’s
when you start importing so what would
be your number one secret to eating
locally the number one secret is
learning how to cook you know I think if
you don’t know how to cook you are a
slave to convenience food and you don’t
have a choice you go to your local
grocery store and they tell you what you
can eat because you can’t go the
vegetable or the deli or the you know
the meat counter you have to go to the
center where everything’s made for you
you know people say that eating locally
and organic is more expensive than
eating convenience food but two potatoes
cost sixty cents
a package of mashed potatoes costs four
dollars so it actually is cheaper with
an asterisk you have to be able to cook
thank you very much thanks for having me
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