Posts from ‘November, 2007’

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 [...]

We are hosting the annual celebration of the harvest bounty. Our guests will be my parents, my siblings, their spouses and children. All together, there are 10 of us. Our diets are an interesting mix. We have one vegetarian, one salt-free, one post-tonsilectomy, one on Weight Watchers core, one post-gastric bypass, one allergic to nuts [...]

I heard on NPR today that the Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year for 2007 is Locavore. Four women in San Francisco are credited with coining the phrase (http://www.locavores.com/). Talk about jump-starting the effort to raise people’s awareness! I find it ironic though, that this phrase came out of San Francisco. How hard can [...]

I picked up the Fall 2007 Edible Nutmeg magazine at New Morning. It’s a great idea and I found it to be mostly a good read but was somewhat disappointed in the lack of follow-through in some parts. For example: In their Letter from the Publishers of the Fall 2007 issue, they pointed out that [...]