"Not so many years ago, it suddenly became chic to be a good cook. Even baking your own bread became glamorous. In our present times of crises, the practical art of preserving is growing ever more popular."
"A few years ago a return to the earth and to life on a more natural level was considered a somewhat eccentric poetic dream pursued by a rising tide of young people and a small minority of disenchanted middle-age. Now the very real circumstances that involve all of us are making it an imperative necessity."
"All of us are becoming increasingly suspicious of the questionable additives in the commercially prepared, pre-packaged, plasticized food. These dyes and chemicals are far more beneficial to the wholesaler shipper and warehouse keeper than to the human anatomy."
-from Home Preserving Made Easy copyright 1975...
just as easily could have been from the transcript of some "expert" on a morning show, yesterday. It's interesting, how long it takes ideals to get from the fringe to mainstream... I'd say global warming pretty much made that leap during the 8 years Bush was in office. Think about what you thought about Al Gore and global warming back when he was running against Bush in 2000, and then think about how these days, just about everyone says it exists, the nay-sayers these days just argue over whether it's human caused or not.
How did that happen? Besides the easy answer of An Inconvenient Truth, what's the process an idea goes through to get from only a few people actually having an opinion, to it being taken for granted...
my most recent reading material just happened to bring that info focus... clearly the idea the authors' had when they wrote their forward hasn't yet come into it's own, why did global warming make it in just over eight years and this hasn't made it in thirty... I know large parts of that answer, but not all of it.
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