The importance of food

I

Many people ask me
(Well I wonder)
What is the importance
Of cooking, in permaculture?

After all
It is not in any of its petals..
In any of its principles..
Or in any of its concepts

Well here is my answer
(To nobody)

What if you could harvest
The best cabbage, the biggest cauliflower
But
You don’t know how to make sauerkraut
And you never liked
The ‘locro de col’ done by your mother?

Where would it go the cabbage
(More than the picture & statistics)
Than the garbage?

There it lies my friends
The importance
In the whole sustainability circle
Of honey mustard.

II

Living Ecuador for example
A tropical /frutal country
The most clever thing to do
The smartest
Wouldn’t need to be to incorporate fruits into the meals
And into the cooking?

I remember it as if it was yesterday
The first time I ate my mango salad
At first I only thought
“this is the chic-est thing ever tasted”
“Salads only done by millionaires”

Now I think
To incorporate fruits in the cooking
Is the most efficient sustainable in cheapest way to eat

Definitely the Smartest one

Nowadays I just thinking about
Deconstructing
For what it is a lemon pie
More than just a
Cookie-based sweet lemon omelette?

What else could I do
In this abundant
Richest, healthiest
More beautiful land on earth
Than just enjoy it
Enjoy its teachings..
Implicits all the way
Enjoy the fact of just..
Staring at it