The Goods Are Odd

I thought, fast forward ten years, that this would have been the book I wrote after rejecting the rat race and living off the land. Well, none of those things have quite happened yet (except, the rat race has been pretty much ignored in our house) but the book got written anyway- just, not by me.

The writer of my book turned out to be Shannon Hayes. An amazing women and great writer who turned her commitment to her household and her curiosity about this commitment into a book called Radical Homemakers. (I mentioned this upcoming work here, and it is basically a thesis of what Michael Pollen mentions when he talks about labor/time/gender and the ways in which these are linked to how we eat (see below) The history of the development of consumer culture and the creation of cheap food is also addressed in an article I wrote, which can be read here)

I don’t even need to give a summary as she has done so for Yes! Magazine and you can read it here. She also wrote a piece for the Chelsea Green Blog- read here. The themes are very Mind-to-Mouth and I hope you all take the chance to read Hayes’ work.