If an earthquake, tsunami or other natural disaster cut your area off from the rest of the country for weeks, what would you eat? Do you have food stored for such a scenario, and just as importantly, a plan for how to prepare it so it’s worthy of eating?
Many of the residents of the small coastal town of Manzanita, Oregon, have given this scenario a fair bit of thought. The town sits squarely in a tsunami zone, prone to catastrophic flooding and landslides when the next Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake strikes. Disaster preparedness is not far from the surface of daily life for many residents, but it’s not all doom and gloom.
Back in February 2024, the first “Apocalypse Cookoff” pit three creative local chefs to the test to see in a "Top Chef" style contest to create the best meal using only storable food. No heat. No water. They could only use shelf-stable ingredients, 20 minutes and a lot of creativity.
OPB's "Superabundant" crew filmed the action as each chef brought a different philosophy, from using home-harvest and preserved ingredients like canned-bread, to making the most of lowly, but ubiquitous ketchup packets. The takeaway? With a little planning you can still eat well - even in the end times.
Read more at: www.opb.org/article/2024/03/0... Recipe for disaster: Oregon Coast group puts a twist on emergency food preparedness
Chapters
00:00 Ketchup packet cocktail sauce
00:30 Living in a tsunami zone
00:51 First annual apocalypse cookoff, the Cooking in an Emergency Contest
01:45 Philosophy 1: re-using common food items
02:00 Philosophy 2: harvest and preserve at home
02:26 Philosophy 3: use pantry basics in creative ways
03:00 The Cooking in an Emergency Contest results
03:30 Dessert, disaster-style
04:14 Eating well in the end times
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28 май 2024
