Today I attended the Eat Real Festival in Oakland, California's historic Jack London Square and it was a feast! Not just for my palate but my mind and soul. Eat Real’s mission is to make real food as accessible and as affordable as fast food (nothing over $5.00) at events held in strategic communities across the United States. Eat Real measures their success by increased public awareness of and respect for the craft of making good food and by the growth of green collar jobs in America’s growing regional food economies. Eat Real’s vision is of an America where food’s crucial importance to the health of our bodies, communities and economy is widely recognized, and where access to healthy and affordable real foods is a right, not a privilege.
I believe there is a message and lesson in Eat Real for the gift industry. Wouldn't it be great if America revived it's manufacturing sector? Think of the jobs it would create and how it would benefit our local economies!
