After finishing "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan, I keep thinking about how I have been hosting Kitchen Caravan. Initially, we thought that we would help people learn about nutrition from informing them about all of the nutrients in the ingredients that we use. While I still think that educating people about healthy foods is important, I am not so sure that I want to make people obsess about what has vitamin A and what has vitamin E. We should all just be able to enjoy an apple, not because it is full of fiber or vitamins or whatever, but because it is simply an apple, and not only is it good for us, but we enjoy eating it. In his book, Pollan talks about how foods have been stripped down to their nutrient contents. Food companies then can inject the nutrient into a food product, and convince us that it is healthy. I think that in the future we will look at ingredients in a more holistic sense, and not zone in so much on the minutiae of the food's nutritional profile. We all need to just relax, and trust our senses when it comes to eating. Let's not worry so much about the chemical make up of an almond, and just enjoy it as a little snack before dinner.