Mandela: “A traveler through a country would stop at a village and he didn’t have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not address themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you be able to improve?”
50% of humanity still lives below the poverty line, and the problems over food for the world are worsening alarmingly. Sixty thousand people die of hunger and poverty every day. The Right to adequate food, the Right to drinking water and the Right to satisfy basic needs, including infrastructures, now clearly demonstrate the global urgency of something that morally can no longer be postponed. Only meeting those Human Rights effectively can ensure the right to human life. In this sense, it is particularly important to avoid new sources of energy (bio fuel, etc.), which attract much investment, do not reduce the production of food, nor put up its price.
I’m a chocolate covered strawberry fanatic, and a dear friend knows this about me…I’ll have to wait for one strawberry to finish ripening, but the others are fair game! Spread da love!
Russell IM’d me tonight with a list of 20 Super Brain Foods (as if I needed them). Of course, I settled on chocolate-covered strawberries, as I could live with the fact that my brain was operating on chocolate. He was appalled, but I had the come-uppance.
You see, I was reveling in the minimal chocolate surrounding those healthy strawberries when Russell then IM’d me with a link to this. “This” is a photo of Eggs Benedict with a cup of fruit and a smattering of fried potatoes. Instead of the fruit and potatoes, Russell had LOBSTER. Bugger.
As much as I love chocolate, I was overwhelmed with the egg-yellow custard color of the sauce that graced Russell’s Eggs Benedict, and I could almost smell the lobster. Thank heavens his meal was much more fattening than mine and I could use that excuse to avoid it. Or could I?
If I ate three chocolate-covered strawberries, I would consume about 164 calories per strawberry. However, an Eggs Benedict without the lobster is approximately 479 calories.
Wait. Hold on. I could have 3 chocolate covered strawberries (492 calories) for more calories than Eggs Benedict? I may give up chocolate! Plus, Eggs Benedict contains fiber and protein. But, chocolate covered strawberries contains minimal proteins, “good” fats, and fiber. It’s a toss-up.
Maybe it’s a melding of two worlds. Strawberries covered in sensuous chocolate one day, and Eggs Benedict fortified by lobster another day…It’s a lifestyle that I could live with, without a doubt…
NOTE: Yes, the strawberries would clean out the arteries clogged by the hollandaise sauce…
Russell IM’d me tonight with a list of 
