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That is a great idea! Although I am in Israel and will not be attending PodCamp Philly, I will send some recipes as cooking is one of my hobbies and I also make sure it is usually healthy.
YOU ARE ON!! This is a really important issue and I couldn't agree with you more.
Have you looked at our website, www.spicesoflife.com? That is exactly what we try to do with in the Dinner Doctor segments: To teach people how to cook healthy, inexpensive, easy dishes that are also delicious!! Steve Garfield and I did a series of shows Dinner Doctor: Quick Meals 1,2,3.
I would be happy to do more Dinner Doctor segments with members of the pod camp community with the emphasis on healthy, inexpensive and delicious. We can start with you!! How about it??
I am a long-standing member of the Nutrition Rountable at the Harvard School of Health and Ming joined last year and the group is VERY concerned with this issue.
Let's talk.
Nina Simonds
ninasimonds@gmail.com
http://podcampphilly.pbwiki.com/Rich-Meals-for-...
http://seesmic.com/v/yebl2eGHFz
http://foodstampchallenge.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Eating on a budget and being health conscious at the same time can be a real challenge.
My advice to everyone submitting a recipe would be, to keep is simple and stick to the basics. (BTW Chris, that Dilled Crab Salad recipe looks delicious but that one meal could totally blow the budget! http://podcampphilly.pbwiki.com/Dilled+Crab+Salad)
I'm really excited about being part of such a worthy project! Thanks for throwing down this challenge!
To begin, you wouldn't have lost credibility in your exposition by knowing that those two cheesesteak places are there mostly for the tourists, and that unimaginable poverty is everywhere, in everyone's backyard. (And if you think that you actually saw a poor neighborhood the last time you were here, we'll need to do a field trip at some point later.)
Regardless, it's a lovely idea, just one that I think you shouldn't limit to the PodCamp in Philadelphia.
Why not make it a global effort, and save the carbon footprint guilt by encouraging PodCampPhilly to be a Philadelphia event? To really save the planet, stay home and tend your own garden... that's a no-brainer!
When and if you get the chance to get to Philadelphia, though, take a look at who the Mural Arts program is teaching all over the neighborhoods, and what the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green program is doing to help communities reclaim thousands [yes, thousands] of abandoned lots for gardens, and how PhilAbundance distributes fresh food to the needy, and how innumerable others are helping people -- all people -- as only neighbors can.
We were a little slow in adopting the Junior League Cookbook phenomenon, but that's probably because we were busy doing our own thing for a couple of hundred years...
-L.