As a commentary on another thread here,
"Notes Toward a Handle like a Basic Peat Diet,"
I just wanted to note what for me are
some common misinterpretations:
1. A "Peat Diet" interpreted as something almost like
an old-school "macrobiotic" diet,
with starches forming the basis of the diet.
Such an interpretation would have us eating,
as a legitimate "Peat Diet"
repeated and regular meals
centered around what could be called the Peat preferred starches:
potatoes, masa harina, white rice.
I'm talking about seeing a Peat diet as
one which focuses on those starches just about every meal
and perhaps even constitutes the largest single category of food eaten on a regular basis.
2. A "Peat Diet" centered around meat and seafood
or--incorporating Misinterpretation #1--
a diet centered around meats and starches.
This vision of a Peat Diet could lead to
a diet centered around "meat and potatoes,"
or perhaps a "surf 'n turf" view of a Peat Diet(!)
3. A "Peat Diet" focused upon "roots, shoots, and tubers."
Peat does frequently note that--after the good fruits--
the best source of carbs are "roots and tubers."
One time, from a source I can't feel perfectly confident about,
Peat supposedly said "roots, shoots, and tubers."
Well...depending upon how one defines "shoots"
--how about all vegetables!?--
we could imagine a Peat Diet centered around
yams, turnips, cassava, sweet potatoes, etc
and then (using "shoots" as a springboard)
one could add just about any vegetable:
kale, collards, lettuces, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.
I don't consider any of those visions of a Peat Diet,
or any combination thereof,
to accurately reflect Peat's overall body of work.
I do think one could make reasonable arguments
for including--to some minor extent--
some of the foods above.
But, personally, I don't see any of them as being staples of
an "Ideal Peat Diet" or "Strict Peat Diet" or "Accurate Peat-Derived Diet."
"Notes Toward a Handle like a Basic Peat Diet,"
I just wanted to note what for me are
some common misinterpretations:
1. A "Peat Diet" interpreted as something almost like
an old-school "macrobiotic" diet,
with starches forming the basis of the diet.
Such an interpretation would have us eating,
as a legitimate "Peat Diet"
repeated and regular meals
centered around what could be called the Peat preferred starches:
potatoes, masa harina, white rice.
I'm talking about seeing a Peat diet as
one which focuses on those starches just about every meal
and perhaps even constitutes the largest single category of food eaten on a regular basis.
2. A "Peat Diet" centered around meat and seafood
or--incorporating Misinterpretation #1--
a diet centered around meats and starches.
This vision of a Peat Diet could lead to
a diet centered around "meat and potatoes,"
or perhaps a "surf 'n turf" view of a Peat Diet(!)
3. A "Peat Diet" focused upon "roots, shoots, and tubers."
Peat does frequently note that--after the good fruits--
the best source of carbs are "roots and tubers."
One time, from a source I can't feel perfectly confident about,
Peat supposedly said "roots, shoots, and tubers."
Well...depending upon how one defines "shoots"
--how about all vegetables!?--
we could imagine a Peat Diet centered around
yams, turnips, cassava, sweet potatoes, etc
and then (using "shoots" as a springboard)
one could add just about any vegetable:
kale, collards, lettuces, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.
I don't consider any of those visions of a Peat Diet,
or any combination thereof,
to accurately reflect Peat's overall body of work.
I do think one could make reasonable arguments
for including--to some minor extent--
some of the foods above.
But, personally, I don't see any of them as being staples of
an "Ideal Peat Diet" or "Strict Peat Diet" or "Accurate Peat-Derived Diet."