[lit-ideas] "Natural [Organic] Food" (vs. "Unnatural [Junk] Food")
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:45:05 EDT
We are discussing the natural/non-natural distinction as it applies to _la
cuisine_.
n a message dated 8/30/2004 9:28:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
For an alternative view, I recall one of the characters in Bruce
Sterling's science fiction novel _Islands in the Net_, who refuses to
eat anything but chemically reconstituted petroleum. He argues that all
natural foods have evolved over millions of years to be poisonous to
predators--how could you possibly take the risk of eating that stuff.
Interestingly, chemically reconstituted petroleum is not in the OED list of
'natural food' -- some quotes 1671 onwards on this interesting phrase
collocation.
Cheers,
JL
Cites for 'natural food' in the OED
1671 J SHARP Midwives Bk. IV. viii. 224
There is nothing better after conception, to prevent abortment than good
*natural food moderately taken.
1683 T TRYON Way to Health 489
Nor [is it] lawful for any of us to eat Sweet-Meats or delicious Tarts,
after we have eaten sufficiently of other simple & natural Food.
1841 F. MYERS Catholic Thoughts III. §14. 52
There is a considerable portion of all natural food..serving rather for the
vehicle than for the substance of our support.
1934 H. C. SHERMAN Food & Health xvii. 160
Natural foods,..nature's wholes of the kinds to which our own bodies have
been adjusting themselves throughout our evolutionary history.
1999 Healing Arts Festival 1999 Programme 14/2 (advt.)
We are a one-stop organic and natural food supermarket in London.
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