Comments on: Gordon Ramsay: “Eat Locally. Or Don’t. Just Buy My Overpriced Meals.”

By: GWB

GWB — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:48:12 +0000

Miss Squidy
May 29th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
It is extremely important to buy locally and seasonally. Food that is shipped long distance not only destroys the environment, it also tastes bad. Food that has to be shipped long distance has to be harvested before it is ripe so it will be more durable for the long trip. That is why you so often see mealy and flavorless fruits (apples, pears, tomatoes, peaches, strawberries, etc.). Also, our bodies have evolved to eat seasonally. For example, eating citrus in the winter gives us the vitamin C we need to fight off colds
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Yeah, Citrus grows so well in the winter.

By: vitaminkid

vitaminkid — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:36:12 +0000

Ramsay looks so hot on this photo..

By: DaBoss

DaBoss — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:36:16 +0000

Miss Squidy, how about me? I live in an isolated part of Canada. There is no farmers’ market, there is no farms near by that grow anything beyond wheat. So what do you say? What are we suppose to do? It is 4 hours south through the bush to the nearest town that has a population of 15-20 thousand. The closet town to the north is White Horse and it takes 10 hours to drive there. They also do not have an abundance of farms. So, then if we “bought locally” we would all be hunting for our food, growing gardens in our yards every year and pickling and canning all of our food. Which would not give us the fresh healthy food you seem to be plugging. What people like you and Mr. Ramsay need to realize is that lots of people in this world cannot depend on locally grown food. Not to mention we get 6-8 months of winter here. That’s right, growing season doesn’t start here until June and ends in September. Infact, I was in my garden at the end of April and could not dig into the soil because the dirt was STILL FROZEN! I hadn’t even dug a in a whole foot.

By: Miss Squidy

Miss Squidy — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:30:47 +0000

Ron has obviously never been to any of Manhattan’s many farmers markets. most notably the one held in union square.

By: Miss Squidy

Miss Squidy — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:28:22 +0000

Not to mention that it costs less because you don’t have to ship it.

By: Miss Squidy

Miss Squidy — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:26:29 +0000

It is extremely important to buy locally and seasonally. Food that is shipped long distance not only destroys the environment, it also tastes bad. Food that has to be shipped long distance has to be harvested before it is ripe so it will be more durable for the long trip. That is why you so often see mealy and flavorless fruits (apples, pears, tomatoes, peaches, strawberries, etc.). Also, our bodies have evolved to eat seasonally. For example, eating citrus in the winter gives us the vitamin C we need to fight off colds. Eating berries and stone fruits in the summer provides us with a refreshing source of energy (carbs and sugars), vitamins, and hydration with out making us feel sluggish. Root vegetables (potatoes, carrots, parsnips, etc.) and orchard fruits (apples, pears, etc.) in the fall help us to store energy for the winter with their high starch content. Spring vegetables like peas, fava beans, ramps, green beans, etc. replenish the vitamins we need after the long winter. Eating seasonally and locally also supports high quality, small, family farms instead of huge, low-quality, government subsidized “farms”. Furthermore studies have shown that homogenizing species’ of vegetables (like on those huge, low-quality farms) has caused the nutrition content of fruits and vegetables to decline due to the fact that farming in this manner depletes the soil and harms the environment on a huge scale. So, it saves the environment, TASTES BETTER, and is better for you.

By: Anna Keppa

Anna Keppa — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:49:35 +0000

I suppose Ramsay is unfamiliar with the term “growing season”. Brits would have to go back to eating pickled veggies, canned foods and storable stuff like potatoes during the six-odd months when its too cold or rainy to grow produce in the UK.

And what about all those Indian, Balti and Chinese restaurants? Where they gonna get their exotic ingredients? should they just close up for six months each year?

Bottom line: Ramsay’s just another brainless elite shoots off his mouth without thinking things through.

And if you wanna make a “green” restauranteer go bonkers, just tell him you don’t want any of his over-priced “sparkling” bottled water because its carbonation offends your attempts to maintain a low “carbon footprint”.

And oh yes: myself, I would enjoy placing my “carbon footprint” squarely on Ramsay’s smarmy ass.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:04:29 +0000

There would be no restaurants in NY city if he followed his own dictates.

Is anything grown within 100 miles of Manhattan?

Apples?

By: Pastafarian

Pastafarian — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:36:45 +0000

It’s hard to find locally grown tomatoes in Chicago in February.

By: SailorAlphaCentauri

SailorAlphaCentauri — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:24:40 +0000

It smacks of hypocrisy because he doesn’t practice what he preaches. I don’t have a problem with buying locally grown produce, but I’m not going to tell people that there should be a law banning the use of out-of-season produce and flout it for myself. His reputation does not afford him a free ticket to IdontpracticewhatIpreachville.