When your food doesn’t travel far from the farm to the fork, the people transporting the food do not need to use as much gasoline to get to you, making it both cheaper to purchase and better for the environment. Because the rice in Khon Kaen only travels a short distance, it is cheap to buy and found in nearly every meal, which means I get to enjoy it every time I eat larb.
What about you? How far did your lunch travel before you ate it today? Is it spicy? What kinds of foods would you consider staples in your life? Do you think that that would change if you lived in Thailand, or Argentina, or Italy or Ethiopia?
