I like organic food, but I haven't exactly been a fanatic. I buy most of the organic food we eat when it is convenient and cheap, although I definitely go out of my way to buy organic lettuce in a bag, avocados, or tomatoes. I never knew lettuce had flavor until I tried organic, and I'm still weirded out by the fact that organic lettuce lasts twice as long as the other stuff. You'd think, if anything, that at least all those pesticides and what-not would help the food last longer. Organic salad dressing, on the other hand, tastes pretty much like... any other salad dressing.
Today, however, I may have been pushed over the edge into fanaticism. I tried organic butter for the first time. *sound of choruses of angels singing* The contrast between organic butter and the other stuff is as stark as the difference between margarine and butter. It even melts differently. I used it in my trusty Bisquick shortcake recipe, and it tasted ten times better. Who'd have thought that such a difference in taste could be brought about by not pumping cows with hormones to make them put all the nutrients they eat go into producing twice as much milk, starving them in the process? Amazing.
I'm never buying inorganic butter again.
Posted by waltondammerung at May 11, 2004 10:15 PMAMEN, SISTER! Organic butter is, in a word, DEEEEEE VINE! Have you tried the fruit, though? I once had a foodgasm eating an organic granny smith apple.
Posted by: Sarah at May 12, 2004 2:41 PM