{"id":4632,"date":"2025-10-07T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:13:25","slug":"de-woestijn-als-supermarkt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/de-woestijn-als-supermarkt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desert as a Supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my travels around the world, I found inspiration from unexpected encounters that I'd like to share with you. Sometimes you have to go (far) away to get closer. This time: \"The Desert as a Supermarket.\"

Do you know that sun-ripened, fresh red tomato you eat in Italy or Greece? A wild, brand-new salmon straight from the river onto your plate? Lettuce from your own garden. No chemicals, just pure nature. Can you taste the difference?

We've become so accustomed to supermarkets that eating like that has become normal. Or it's even delivered to your door. With all the convenience, original food has often become increasingly distant.

I truly woke up to this when I volunteered for a day at a salmon factory on Bella Bella Island during a Native Canoe Event organized by First Nations Natives. The salmon I literally handled was being prepared to be smoked and eaten later. So close, so pure, and so much more flavorful and healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And do you think nature doesn't have enough to offer you? Even if you live in the desert for years? I thought so until I came across the following words in the desert of Joshua Tree Park from Ruby Modesto, a Cahuilla Elder, who said: \"Walking down a canyon is like strolling down a supermarket aisle.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It's food for thought about what we allow ourselves to be nourished with. And yet, this is also a choice. It's now been proven that natural food increases the likelihood of staying healthy and vital for longer. Imagine if you reduced your comfort and made more of an effort to make original food a little more your own, how would you feel? How would that contribute to your overall health and vitality, which we all value so highly? Try out the advice ancient peoples give us, and then decide whether you'd like to eat more natural food.

I hope it tastes well.

Martin

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Tijdens mijn ontdekkingsreizen over de wereld ontving ik inspiratie uit onverwachte ontmoetingen die ik graag met je deel. Soms moet je (ver) weggaan om dichterbij te komen. Deze keer: \u2018de woestijn als supermarkt\u2019. Ken je dat een zongerijpte, verse rode tomaat die je in Itali\u00eb of Griekenland eet. Een wilde, kersverse zalm die direct uit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wereldinspiraties"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions\/4712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}