Eat, at a time of infectious disease pandemic

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The car turned into a familiar parking lot, parked, put on the mask placed in the car, got out of the car, and entered the warehouse under the wide open iron rolling door. Now there was a table on the table. There was a bottle of disinfectant alcohol on the table. A bell rang and a handwritten notice board asked you not to enter the warehouse without permission. Press the bell and someone will come out to help you.

This is Adaptations 'warehouse, where I've been picking up fresh produce every two weeks for the last five years. In the past, he directly opened the door and walked into the big freezer of Adaptations, found the box with his name on it, took it and left.

KCC Farmers Market in Honolulu. Hawaii's state government has issued a home order since late March, and many farmers 'markets in the state have also closed, and many farmers' markets have been converted to online shopping. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyone's life. Taiwan's daily life is still going according to the routine, and 80% of the world's people who are ordered to stay at home form two parallel universes. Last week, Hawaii's governor extended the stay in order until the end of May, but opened beaches and parks for residents to exercise but not stay for parties. Children disappear for an entire semester, there is no graduation ceremony for this year's graduates, many parents work from home and fill their children's schedules, and there is an unprecedented wave of unemployment. Only the so-called essential industries are left in society to maintain their operation.

This week my suitcase contained collard greens, cabbage, tomatoes, pleurotus eryngii, beets, cherry radishes, broccoli, asparagus, eggplant, shallots, half a dozen fresh duck eggs, goat cheese from the East Side Ranch on the Big Island, and sourdough bread fresh out of the oven that morning. All small farmers from the big island.

Fresh produce in our CSA boxes this week. Adaptations is a local Food Hub on Big Island, a food distribution center, an important link in promoting food localization in the United States. They are a middleman between food producers and food consumers. They are somewhat similar to the role of local farmers 'associations in Taiwan, but they are private organizations. They buy fresh fruits and vegetables produced by local farmers and resell them to local restaurants, hotels and supermarkets. It can be said that they do the first half of the food production, distribution and marketing.

They also offer CSA to general family consumers like us. Adaptations 'Fresh Feast CSA ordering method is very flexible; you can choose to get it once a week or once every two weeks; the premise is to put some money in the account first, and then deduct it every week. You must maintain the basic amount.

Every Thursday I get an e-mail notification that the online store is open. You can choose the vegetables and fruits that are available this week, or other local produce. The farm is marked below the produce. The online store is open until Sunday morning. Order during this time. You can pick up your Fresh Feast box at the designated place on Tuesday. This new custom CSA is ideal for our island lifestyle where everyone has a yard with several fruit trees and vegetable gardens. When the avocado mango at home is abundant, no one wants to get extra avocado and mango bar, I believe experienced people can feel the pressure of excessive food.

When the mango at home is abundant.

Hawaii's mango is also not lost to Taiwan.

You can also get avocado and grapefruit when you go to the post office, which is probably a unique sight in Hawaii.

CSA is short for Community Supported Agriculture, which in Chinese can be called Community Supported Agriculture. The concept of SCA began in Europe and Japan in the 1960s and became common in the United States in the 1980s. The initial opportunity was the emergence of large-scale economic farming, which raised concerns about food security and urbanization of agricultural land.

Simply put, CSA is a mutual aid and commitment between producers and consumers. Consumers regularly order produce from farmers, and farmers regularly deliver fresh produce to consumers. Knowing where the produce on your table came from, even knowing which farmer grew it, and eating your stomach gives you a more ceremonial appreciation for the food, a respect and trust for the farmer. No wonder CSA has been described as enabling you to "know your food, your farmer and your land." By sharing and collaborating, consumers and producers connect with each other, treating the land in a more friendly way, we can live healthier and coexist with nature."

A variety of brightly colored root vegetables at farmers 'markets.

The farmer's market is full of boxes of fresh sour country bread. Home orders have also changed the buying habits of ordinary people. Unnecessary to go out is no longer feasible, had to go out to buy, a few days ago to visit a supermarket, less rice to buy rice, less onions, drive a car immediately rushed to buy; visit farmers market is a weekend must go trip. Now that a trip to the supermarket is only once a week or even two weeks, shopping lists have become mandatory. It was found that cooking became a big test at the time of the pandemic, trying to avoid cooking dishes that required overly complex ingredients. Boilers or cooks began to empty their food storage cabinets at home, looking at the ingredients in the refrigerator every day and thinking about the dishes for the next meal. The kitchen waste in the past could be reused as the ingredients for the next meal, and every meal became a refrigerator dish.

For example, if you cut off the white root of the onion and put it in a water bottle, the root of the onion will grow slowly, and the green onion will emerge on the top. When you need to use the onion, cut off some at will. Such seemingly effortless trifles are popular among people who have been locked up at home for more than a month, putting themselves on kitchen windowsills and posting daily shallots on social networking sites, calling this a small "windowsill victory"; the word comes from "victory garden" victory garden, referring to the time during World War I when people began growing vegetables and chickens in their yards to feed themselves and their relatives. This coincided with another trend at this time, when people began planting vegetables, which is not difficult in the United States where most people have gardens, and the demand for seeds increased greatly. Homemade yeast-baked sourdough bread is another kitchen snack that became popular during the housewarming period.