It is chilling to see that now in order to obtain higher market values with industrialization and the mass production, old memorable customs are being lost. Even here, in this green hippy town where I live, it is extremely difficult to find freshly harvested spaghetti (or at least one without pesticides). Spaghetti reaped by a small family, one that had always maintained this practice.
Of course, you might say that the Wisconsin weather does not help the crops and that the dreaded spaghetti weevils are now more resistant to insecticides. However, there is this special zest that hand crafted items have that is invariably lost in Walmart. Maybe I am just excessively nostalgic.
Who would have known that the 1957 documentary of the Switzerland spaghetti harvest would be one of the last films about this honorable and familiar tradition.
Anyway, if things continue as they are, it will be more common to buy dehydrated water than to drink it fresh. At least here, the majority still prefers the old fashioned way.
6/1/09
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