after reading the introduction of the book "Food for All: The Need for a New Agriculture"

John Madeley who is an author of this book has newly suggested how to deal with agriculture. With rapidly developing the technology, the farming system has been changed. For example, farmers have tended to produce on a large scale because they are particular about amount sold. On the other hand, they have neglected their duties to keep safety and quality of products because of using a large amount of agricultural chemicals. This is the one of the latest issues about agriculture. After I had read the introduction of the book, the issues about agriculture has been more serious than I thought, so I will think carefully about them while reading this book.

One of my favorite Italian dish!

One of most popular Italian dishes is Meat Sauce, but it is a little high calories because it is used ground beef. The speaker introduced “Vegetarian Meat Sauce” that is Vegetarian version .  She didn’t use ground beef. As a ground beef substitute, she used “Vegetarian Meat Crumble.” According to her, They are low fat, high flavor, and it cooks really fast, so that will be exactly two birds with one stone.  This is so healthy, so anyone including people who mind the calories can eat it. Probably, they will not notice that it is not used ground beef because they feel like real meat and tasty until they know that. If I have a chance, I would like to cook it.

I will post the podcast’link which I watched.

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/delicious-tv/id257573196?mt=2

4th Annual “Gohan (Food) Film Festival”

This event looks very interesting! If we go there, we will be able to watch the remarkable movies with enjoying a special meal. I will be able to have the time of my life.

 Especially, I checked the movie trailer of "Bagdad Café", it looks very exciting. I would like to take notice of a lonely German woman who had quarreled with her husband in this movie. Also, I also looked through the summary of "Coffee & Cigarettes," I really want to know the rest of what happens in this movie. In the case of me, both of their images are not so good, because they are not healthy for our body. So, I’m interested in the story. Anyway, I would love to go and see the movies.

Tokyo Vegefood Festa in 2013

I read the official website of TOKYO Vegefood Festa. It seems to be interesting! I remembered another festival which was annual event and held in Yoyogi Park in May. When  I have been to Earth Day Tokyo as a volunteer, we enjoyed eating healthy food ( I feel that the food which I ate was like Vegan food…).  It was the first time that I got to know Vegan food is delicious and has many good points. And, it will a good chance to taste Vegan food which I haven’t eaten yet. Unfortunately, I will not be able to go to the festival because I have plans. So, if anybody will go there, please tell me about your impressions.

Food Aphorisms

"A fit, healthy body-that is the best fashion statement"
I agree with this poem. People long to be beautiful, so some of them tend to spend a lot of money on nice dresses, expensive jewelry and so on. But this poem says that we should do moderate exercise, eat a balanced diet and sleep well. This is the best way to keep a healthy body if we want to be beautiful. It seems to be simple, but it's the most important for us, I think.

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."
Of course, I can understand a little, but that's going too far. Even if I have a pie to eat, sometimes I stress out. When we want to work off, we tend to drink and eat too much to try to reset, but it is not good for our body. To keep a healthy body mentally and physically, we need to do moderate exercise, sleep well and have a balanced diet. Balance is important.

Picnic!

It was very fun for me to go on a picnic because I feel we could become friendlier each other than before we did. The end of the first class, I was troubled because I was worried about the future. However, we shore manmade dishes, talked with almost all of classmates.
Unfortunately, last Friday was not good weather, so we could not enjoy the picnic properly. Instead of that, we could enjoy other things. For example, Nori-Maki Karen made and minced meat rolled in cabbage leaves Hitomi made were so good. Moreover, some of you tried to juggle some balls and pins with Mr. Dias. It looked interesting, I should also have challenged, too...
By the way, everyone were supposed to introduce any physical activities, but we could n't due to a bad weather. If it was a good day, what activity were you going to introduce? In my case, I was supposed to introduce "Drop the Handkerchief Game." Do you know or have you ever done it when you were children? I used to do it many times with my friends when I was a child, so this is familiar to me.
Finally, as I have stated before, last class was so exciting for me. Taking this opportunity, I would like to get along with all of you. And, if we can get a good chance, I want to do all the things we couldn't do last week while I can in a sunny day.