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Posts tagged “locavore”

Debate: How Much Do Food Miles Matter?
The Atlantic

We just read this article by Marion Nestle on The Atlantic's food site, and it brings up the (hotly debated) question of how important it is to buy local. Should we avoid produce that's traveled thous...

New Trick: How to Track Your Chicken Back to the Farm

We just read about this on Eat Me Daily (via Slashfood), and we're alternately overjoyed that we can type a code into a website to find out where our chicken grew up and amazed that someone hadn't tho...

Cooking Local: Eduardo's PastaSan Francisco

So far, even in this ramshackle economy, I'm still trying to shop as locally and organically as possible. But if I have to choose between the two, I usually go for local over organic. It just makes ...

Edible Manhattan Magazine Debuts
New York

The Edible community is a network of publications devoted to telling the stories behind the food we eat—highlighting farms, sustainable practices, food lovers, and local ingredients. Finally, Edibl...

Outdoor Dining for a Cause: Just Food's "Let Us Eat Local"
New York

Last night, we were lucky enough to eat our way through the "Let Us Eat Local" event, sponsored by Just Food, which celebrated seasonal New York ingredients and local food advocates. The setting (Wate...

Blogging the Denver Post: The Ultimate Colorado BLT

With the nonstop news coverage switching today from the Olympics in Beijing to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, we thought we'd see what was cooking in The Denver Post. This big, juicy ph...

Blogging Sunset: DIY Guides to Honey, Beer, Olive Oil, and More

Sunset magazine's editors have undertaken a "One Block Diet" project, growing their own vegetables, making their own wine, and nurturing their own honeybees. They're sharing their knowledge, too, in a...

Blogging The Wall St. Journal: Bellota Ham and Thoughts on Imported Meat

That's a long title for a short post, but we had a lot of thoughts reading an article in last weekend's Wall St. Journal. The article was about the prized bellota ham, or jamón ibéri...

Blogging Domino: Eating Locally

We weren't crazy about Domino's March issue, devoted to green living. And according to some comments on our home sites, many of you weren't either. But we did enjoy reading Cynthia Kling's column on...