Let me preface this post with a little background about me. Bear with me, I will come full circle and show this post's applicability to food and cooking. I promise. Last night we attended a free screening of Plastic Paradise , a film by Angela Sun, about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. While I am fearful for the next generation - we are leaving them a damaged planet - I am also hopeful for the changes and choices they will make. I lean to the 'granola' side. You can't go to college in Berkeley and not absorb some of that. The air is rife with indignation; protests - peaceful sit-ins and those that end in arrests - are a weekly, if not daily, occurrence; and everyone is passionate about one cause or another. You spend four or five years of your life in that atmosphere and you are going to come out hugging trees. When Jake and I worked in the SCUBA industry, certifying divers and writing articles about dive travel, marine conservation was my main focus. Then I ...