Tag Archives: locavore

A Joyful Step in the Right Direction

August 24, 2010 – 10:43 pm

The title of this post is taken directly from Jennifer Maiser’s response to Stephen Budiansky’s New York Times op-ed of last Friday, titillatingly entitled “Do Locavores Need Math Lessons?” Ms. Maiser is the founder of the Eat Local Challenge, whose 2007 One Local Summer really spurred me into this locavore thing more determinedly. As she says so well, “Food miles are a very small part of the reasons to eating locally.” This is nearly exactly what I said myself upon reading the op-ed.

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Farmed & Foraged

May 15, 2009 – 1:22 pm

Local Berkshire folks will be pleased to know — if they don’t already — about Farmed & Foraged, a county-wide local foods celebration. A whole slew of the best restaurants in the county are offering prix-fixe and tasting menus featuring local produce, wild foods, meats, fish, cheeses, and more. Check the Berkshire Eagle online for [...]

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Big Local

May 14, 2009 – 12:48 pm

Garlic scapes and beets at the Bennington Farmers’ Market Maybe 2009 will be remembered as the year Local broke. Today’s New York Times certainly thinks so, with a two-page article discussing the co-opting of “buy local” marketing strategies by industrial agriculture. Frito-Lay, the potato chip maker, will begin airing commercials featuring the farmers who grow [...]

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Rhubarb Maple Muffins

April 30, 2009 – 7:59 am

These muffins are free of refined sugar — surprise! — and they’re packed with good-for-you ingredients like rolled oats and whole wheat pastry flour.

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Linguine Rigate with Ramps and Asparagus

April 29, 2009 – 12:41 pm

This is the kind of quick and dirty recipe that can take a lot of fiddling around, so if you don’t have what’s here, play with similar ingredients and see what you come up with.

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