Uncommonly delicious ethics
Uncommonly delicious ethics
WE ARE A FAMILY OF agroecologists RAISING heritage-BREED LARGE BLACK PIGS AND dairy short horn CATTLE ON 69 ACRES OF djandak - unceded Dja Dja Wurrung country - near what is now called DAYLESFORD, VICTORIA.
We acknowledge and pay our respects to Djaara elders past and present.
WE BUTCHER, cook, & cure ON FARM, AND SELL OUR UNCOMMONLY DELICIOUS PORK AND BEEF AT THE FARM GATE AND THROUGH a community-supported agriculture (CSA) membership.
Eat Like the Jonai is a food sovereignty warrior’s handbook to crack the industrial food system in the most uncommonly delicious ways. Part recipes, part stories, and full of Tammi’s hard-won knowledge of the food system, you will be armed to grow, cook, eat, read and advocate your way to a more delicious future.
Your purchase will feed you, us, and many others for years to come, as it is the core of our fundraising efforts to build an abattoir at Jonai Farms. Viva la revolución!
Eat Like the Jonai is a celebration of good food and company. It is a guide for eaters as you navigate the complicated world of shopping for ethical and ecologically-sound food - how to know whether that bacon or those eggs are genuinely ‘free range’, unravelling certification schemes, and deciphering labels. It does so while providing the pleasurable side of eating ethically with a cosmopolitan range of recipes that use easy-to-find ethically-produced ingredients. Woven through the recipes are stories of a lifetime of deep engagement with food and its means of production - from family feasts and the culinary inspiration of travel to the importance of trusting your tastebuds and getting creative in the kitchen.
The book provides a balance of recipes - many are vegetable based, and others feature a range of beef, pork and other proteins. There is an extensive breakfast chapter (I reckon I can cook eggs in some 17 different styles from 10 cultures), soups (showcasing the use of the whole animal with bone stocks), and preserving (everything from cured meats to pickles and my trademark fermented chili & garlic). The dessert chapter brings in the voices and recipes of the rest of the sweet tooths of the family. There is a celebration of feasts, including la matanza, the annual killing of the pig, with tips about how to make the task of feeding dozens of friends less daunting & a focus on the joys of a potluck meal.
Eat Like the Jonai will make you feel like you’re joining us at the table for a legendary Jonai lunch, and it will give you the inspiration and knowledge you need to nourish others with soulful, mindful, uncommonly delicious meals.
We advocate for food systems transformation collectively as members of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and Tammi is Focal Point for Farmers, and Chair of the AFSA Legal Defence Fund, working to support small-scale farmers and eaters in their right to determine their own food and agriculture systems in the face of scale-inappropriate regulations and planning. If you want to do more to support farmers like us and the food systems we're creating, join AFSA now!
We acknowledge that we are farming on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people, whose sovereignty over our area was never ceded and extend our respect to elders past and present. We endeavour to care for this land with grace and respect for the many thousands of years of custodianship of the Original Owners before us. We think acknowledgement is important but insufficient restitution for the stolen lands of the Original Owners, and so we also pay the rent. We do so by paying 1% of our monthly income to https://paytherent.net.au/. We will continue to search for more ways to offer our solidarity to the Dja Dja Wurrung and all Indigenous Peoples of Australia and around the globe.