LOCAL has been getting a lot of attention here in Austin, especially since this week is Eat Local Week, and a lot of area restaurants are featuring locally sourced specials on their menus.
Melanie Haupt (who wrote the Austin Chronicle article about the 12 Films Project) wrote an article for the Chronicle's food blog about LOCAL and just posted it up here. Click on the link to read the entire article, but the part that really got me was this:
"In my other life, I teach a rhet/comp class at UT called The Rhetoric of Eating, which focuses on the different stories we tell about ourselves and our values through the way that we talk about eating and the choices we make about the food that we eat. I showed Local to my students on the last day of classes this semester and it was a breath of fresh air, a burst of inspiration and hope in the face of a feeling that we are trapped in a food system that effectively enslaves and poisons us in its drive for profits at any cost. Local is an example of the kinds of stories we should all aim to tell when it comes to talking about our food."
That feels pretty awesome...
