Recently I was sent a link to an article about a very interesting study done in England that identified that food taste in that country was as unique and identifiable by region as accents. The why for this was quite varied and some of it struck me as a bit of a stretch such [...]

This weekend my daughter and I chose what we would grow in our garden this summer. As I am one of the folks caught up in Layoff 2009, we are growing a much larger garden than we have previously planned. Honestly, I’m over my head, but learning quickly.
The increase in what we grow [...]

The 2009 Annual Farm to Table Conference
April 3, 2009- April 4, 2009
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown
Keep it Real, Keep it Local
Tickets: $25 for the conference and $25 for food tasting, which is scheduled for Friday night.
Conference Highlights:
• Farmers Market
• Expanded Health Expo
• Cooking Demonstrations by Chefs and Dieticians
• [...]

There are entire lists of great reasons to eat locally, which is why I’m not going to re-iterate them here. The fact remains that the mainstream still looks at the Locavore diet to be kind of a Treehugging-Granola- Lefty-Green thing to do, which is where our President enters the picture.
Okay, I admit that it’s still [...]