There’s no such thing as an “organic” recipe!There’s no such thing as an “organic” recipe!
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Aug 10, 2009
Now here is another curiosity. I have on my shelves six or seven books that claim to be ‘organic recipe books'. They might be fine books, and they do contain recipes, but are the recipes ‘organic'?I adhere to a view that I think is standard across most of the organic industry, and is embodied in the IFOAM Guidelines for organic production, which is that the only things that can really be labelled ‘organic' (in the current sense) are things that are produced in nature. Plants and animals can be organic. Water and salt are not the ‘products of biology' and therefore should not be called organic and should not carry a certification mark.
Recipes, equally, are not produced in nature and are therefore not organic.
The ingredients are organic. The recipes are just, well, recipes.
These books may make good reading, encourage healthy eating, stimulate organic consumption etc. but they could just as well be called ‘recipe books' for organic food or eating.
What do you think?
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