Laura over at (not so) Urban Hennery is continuing the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge tradition. The rules are to cook one meal each week featuring SOLE (sustainable, organic, local, ethical) ingredients and write about it on your blog. We set our own food zones and exceptions.Weekly recaps by group are posted over at (not [...]
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Locavore Chocolate
For me, being a locavore means I eat local food, but not only local food. I eat food as locally as possible. If something grows in CT, I get it from CT. If it doesn’t grow in CT, I’m open to getting it from its natural habitat. Coffee and chocolate come to mind. When I [...]
Thinking about rules
I’m thinking about my rules…what constitutes a true locavore to me? Idealy, I’d like to be a 90% local foodie. The only non-local items would be stuff that just doesn’t happen in the 100-mile foodshed around Newtown, Connecticut. Those who have been reading along know that I haven’t been doing this long enough to have [...]
The Marco Polo Exception
It turns out that there’s already a locavore phrase for those foods that don’t grow locally: the Marco Polo exception. Bill McKibben coined the phrase: And I made what might be called the Marco Polo exception—I considered fair game anything your average 13th centuryexplorer might have brought back from distant lands.So: pepper, and turmeric, and [...]
