Apart from the "bachelor's trademark" spaghetti dinner with garlic bread to impress that "special someone," the idea of cooking from actual ingredients registered in my brain as a waste of time. After all, I was busy trying to be a spiritual and social activist on campus, encouraging my friends to pray, serve, and have wholesome fun. Along the way, eating was the virtually meaningless and burdensome process of filling my body with energy so that I could go out and do meaningful things in the world for God.
According to Barbara Kingsolver, in her latest book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life: "the case of modern food... has become the boring act of poking the thing in our mouths, with no feeling for any other stage in the process... When I ponder the question of why Americans eat so much bad food on purpose, this is my best guess: alimentary alienation."
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Destiny Williams (2000 Krista Colleague) is now Communications Associate for the Krista Foundation and spent a year and a half in El Salvador and Guatemala with Agros International. Drawing from his degree in Psychology, Destiny interviewed war refugees to record and document their family histories. Destiny is enthusiastically selecting vegetable seeds and looking forward to filling every inch of his 4'x10' backyard garden plot as the growing season approaches Seattle.
