Meaning of Food in Our Lives

Every other week we've been meeting to discuss the book "Simply in Season" at Voices for Youth. The resource is a cookbook that includes reflections, Bible references, factoids, and anecdotes about the meaning and place of food in our lives. It raises our awareness of the people and steps involved in growing, processing, and delivering our food to us. We've discussed hunger -- both undernourishment and overnourishment. We've thought out loud about sustainability and impacts of consuming locally produced foods, as well as consuming seasonal produce. One of our college students regularly shares with us recipes she has tried from the book.

Here, a couple of Voices for Youth participants get into the nitty gritty details of corn syrup cornucopia. Corn syrup in tomato soup? Wha?! We took a look at which foods have corn syrup -- sometimes more than one kind of corn syrup -- and which don't. See more about "Simply in Season", including a downloadable free study guide, at http://www.worldcommunitycookbook.org/