What type of food did Rachael eat growing up?
Rachael remembers her mother telling stories about how she and her siblings used to race each other home half a mile in the heat to get to the good food in the house, which were usually fruits and veggies that the family had canned themselves. The kids competed with each other to prepare and eat the best dishes. Her mother’s upbringing greatly influenced the foods Rachael ate growing up. Rachael also spent a lot of time with her grandfather and generally ate what he ate. Most things were covered with garlic and oil – squid sandwiches, sardine sandwiches, lean fish, you get the picture – but used no butter or animal fat. She would come home from school upset because she didn’t bring what everyone else had for lunch, but her school did not have good food either. Rachael was afraid of what she called “blue foods” – things that came packaged and were unnatural colors – because they reminded her of melted crayons! Rachael didn’t have a taste for sweets and instead ate a lot of dark greens a
