Albert Schweitzer Game - Part 4 – Urban Planning and 5 Winter Menus – Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Urban
planners learn about traffic flow and roads in their studies I would imagine,
especially for ensuring that waste and garbage leave a city while food comes in,
especially food that can be store and eaten in winter.
As
an example in Monterey County (California), we have many descendants of
Italian-Sicilian fisherman. There are
two winter meals we can almost always eat here that you can buy, store, and/or
make:
-New
England Clam Chowder
-Chicken
Piccata with broccoli
-Pudding-based
desserts (3 small bites)
or
Cioppino Seafood Stew instead of Chicken piccata
I
learned to make all of these items when I moved to Monterey 20+ years ago after
eating them in restaurants, so I would know what they were supposed to taste
like.
Roads,
ports, and electric grids are maintained in good order, so those two meals can
be made in Monterey County I think.
There
are other dishes that are made here, but this is what you can find in almost
all Italian restaurants here as a tourist.
Check menus on websites before making reservations to be sure.
Alsace
combines the best of France and Germany together. It is very Merovingian in that way.
What
I mean by that is that France has great roads organizing market distribution of
agricultural products and the Germans make almost indestructible buildings for
storing and distributing food.
Many
Germans and Eastern Europeans also like union, trucking jobs that allow them to
travel Europe and buy nice things for their families as well. These are not minor points when provisioning
a city and making sure that garbage and waste leave every day in large cities
while food comes in.
The
cities in France tend to be organized in concentric circles where agricultural
markets can exchange goods quickly in a discipline manner. You can buy fresh seafood platters in Lyons,
France for this reason just as you would in Brittany, France.
This
theory of concentric circles of agricultural distribution is discussed in
Fernand Braudel’s unfinished series of books The Identity of France and Georges Duby in Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West. Duby was an economist and historian.
Task
1:
Read
both of those books to understand France’s sweet markets and rural life.
Task
2:
Read
Pagnol’s works to understand the life of “rich peasants.”
5 Winter Meals that
Alsatians Make Even if They Might Deny It
-choucroute
with various pork sausages or goose sausages
-pork
chops with applesauce
-egg
noodles with sautéed mushrooms and butter
-roast
duck with green olives
(olives
are bottled and sold all over France)
-poached
fish with light cream sauce and mushrooms
Those
meals above can be made in the US with a little planning.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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