Love the thinking around wine, and think it translates to almost everything. Consciously or not, I’ve shifted my consumption more and more to the local level — clothes made here (USA, or ideally, New England), with natural materials, food grown or raised or hunted here, community built here. I give myself the exception for books (and substack) — can’t allow myself to turn into a barbarian! — but otherwise, I find it’s best, truly, to stay rooted in place.
Couldn’t agree more although I’ve spent a lot more time thinking about this in a cultural, traditions, identity lens than actual consumption. I’ll have to think more about this, but it’s the sensibility I always like about your writing. Cheers!
Love the thinking around wine, and think it translates to almost everything. Consciously or not, I’ve shifted my consumption more and more to the local level — clothes made here (USA, or ideally, New England), with natural materials, food grown or raised or hunted here, community built here. I give myself the exception for books (and substack) — can’t allow myself to turn into a barbarian! — but otherwise, I find it’s best, truly, to stay rooted in place.
Couldn’t agree more although I’ve spent a lot more time thinking about this in a cultural, traditions, identity lens than actual consumption. I’ll have to think more about this, but it’s the sensibility I always like about your writing. Cheers!